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Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic
- Newky 13y agoRead this as "Google Now" the product, please lowercase the now at least.
- apendleton 13y agoYes, I did the same thing. Case is such a useful disambiguator in English... all the more reason to hate title case.
- ScottWhigham 13y ago"... all the more reason to hate title case." So just because a company uses an ambiguous term as a product name ("Now"), that's the final nail in the coffin of title case? Seems a bit silly to me...
- dragonwriter 13y ago> So just because a company uses an ambiguous term as a product name ("Now"), that's the final nail in the coffin of title case? There's nothing ambiguous about the product name. Title case is the source of the ambiguity (and its not specific to particular product names, it happens anywhere where a title is an English sentence in which obliteration of the normal capitalization distinctions creates ambiguity.) And that's the problem with title case -- it obstructs, rather than facilitates, clear communication.
- jrockway 13y agoI always assume the iPhone articles here are about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone
- 7s 13y agoI strongly agree with ScottWhigham in this matter. If anything, I have a problem with the fact that every word im the English Language gets assigned to multiple IT products, movies, books etc. which inevitably leads to confusion.
- 7s 13y agoI strongly agree with ScottWhigham in this matter. If anything, I have a problem with the fact that every word im the English Language gets assigned to multiple IT products, movies, books etc. which inevitably leads to confusion.
- 7s 13y agoI strongly agree with ScottWhigham in this matter. If anything, I have a problem with the fact that every word im the English Language gets assigned to multiple IT products, movies, books etc. which inevitably leads to confusion.
- moskie 13y agoThe fact that the title of the HN submission was changed to remove the word "now" shows that the word was also completely superfluous in the headline. Aren't headlines assumed to be contemporary, to be about "now?"
- bdcravens 13y agoThe lion’s share of it comes from YouTube. Hardly anything surprising that YouTube is the source of most traffic. Take out YouTube, I suspect they'd be closer to 5%. (Didn't really see a breakdown anywhere in the article)
- halfaleague 13y agoI work at Deepfield.net, the company linked to in the article and we find YouTube takes up 78-80% of Google traffic. Google still has a several other larger services.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoDoesn't that make the parent's comment about correct? 80% off 25% is 5%, so it matches pretty well.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoFWIW, stories like this are one of the reasons Google maintains a high level of secrecy. While there I asked Urs Hoezle, "Why not brag about it? Isn't that good?" and his response was "It just makes us a target." And he is/was correct, if your enemies don't know the extent of your strength they can't adequately prepare and attack, if your friends don't know the extent of your strength they have no reason to be afraid of you. That said, this article is based on observing peering traffic -- "It’s impossible to get a total picture of the internet, so Deepfield’s numbers are a best guess based on the traffic flowing through its internet service provider partners." -- and you know they have their own fiber in Kansas City (heck they even bought into some transoceanic cables). You need only look at their quarterly earning reports on their capital investment to get a sense of what we're talking about. And unlike the Government, when Google spends $4B/year on something they get a lot of bang for their bucks.
- ihsw 13y agoFacebook has also invested in submarine fiber systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Pacific_Gateway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Pacific_Gateway Would you use a Facebook ISP? How about a Facebook mobile operator? Facebook handset? Remember: Apple partnered with Motorola to make the Rokr device and Facebook partnered with HTC to make the 'First' device (both of which were flops), so it is so far-fetched? Facebook makes no consumer hardware, but neither did Google until recently.
- halfaleague 13y agoNo. The DeepField data includes data from backbone routers (ie not just peering) and observations of GGC server traffic.
- alexgartrell 13y agoI never understood Google's desire to keep things like GGC tight to the chest. Another search engine isn't going to win or lose based upon their ability to run caching http proxies in ISP data centers.
- ChuckMcM 13y ago
- WestCoastJustin 13y agoI think Wired is using this "Google Sets New Internet Record" [1] as the source material. I think the far more interesting quote is "60% of all Internet end devices/users exchange traffic with Google servers during the course of an average day" [1]. [1] http://www.deepfield.net/2013/07/google-sets-new-internet-record/ http://www.deepfield.net/2013/07/google-sets-new-internet-re...
- thematt 13y agoI'm surprised it's only 60%. With the prevalence of Google Analytics, I assumed it would be much higher.
- kgermino 13y agoRead the entire paragraph: "An amazing 60% of all Internet end devices/users exchange traffic with Google servers during the course of an average day. This analysis includes computers and mobile device as well as hundreds of varieties game consoles, home media appliances, and other embedded devices (Google’s device share is much larger if we look only at computers and mobile devices)."[1] (SIC, Emphasis Added) [1]http://www.deepfield.net/2013/07/google-sets-new-internet-record/ http://www.deepfield.net/2013/07/google-sets-new-internet-re...
- zw123456 13y ago60% huh? It sounds like it's time for anti-trust case to me, hey DoJ.
- giantSlayer 13y agoWow. 60%! That's amazing.
- saejox 13y agoThe rest must be be torrents.
- znowi 13y agoMakes me think of Google Fiber project - NSA to every home :)