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Google Outage Caused 5% Internet Traffic Decline

• physcab 18y ago
  Google might be the next company that is "too big to fail"
  • mapleoin 18y ago
    s/might/is
• aneesh 18y ago
  Maybe the RescueTime folks can tell us the impact on office productivity in that period.
• jonknee 18y ago
  Information Week needs to go back and read the statement, there wasn't a 5% drop in internet traffic. The claim was that Google makes up 5% of the internet traffic normally and it was slow or down for a minority (17%) of users. If it was down for all those users (it wasn't) and they didn't go anywhere else (they did) the drop would be .85%--a veritable drop in the bucket. Considering all the buzz of the problem net internet traffic probably increased as people kept checking, blogging and bitching about it. > But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice.