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I find it kind of disturbing how much effect it had on overall traffic. It makes me think, "What if Google did just drop off the face of the Earth?" How much of
by Posibyte 13y ago
I find it kind of disturbing how much effect it had on overall traffic. It makes me think, "What if Google did just drop off the face of the Earth?" How much of an effect would it have globally?
...Or am I just reading too far into it?
- orofino 13y agoReading too much into it. Users would adapt, moving to other services and traffic volumes would return to approximately "normal" levels.
- arn 13y agoit's actually an interesting scenario. Let's say Google search went away. What services would people flock to, and would they be able to stay up? I guess Bing is the next closest, and it would probably go down.
- Andrenid 13y agoI think more people (meaning non-geeks, non-tech-savvy) would still think of Yahoo before Bing for search and Google-esque services wouldn't they? I know among my family and non-geek friends they would. Some still use Yahoo mail and Yahoo news.
- raintrees 13y agoBut probably only for a short while, then we would see "damage being routed around." But for a short while, it would probably appear a bit like those electrical outages back in 2003 and 1965, to name but a few. One failure/service overload leading to the next... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965
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- cpeterso 13y agoBut also consider all the Gmail addresses and email that would be lost. I'm sure most Gmail users do not back up their Gmail locally.