More importantly, I wonder how much that outage cost everyone. I've seen many computer users simply "give up using the Internet" when Google is down, returning

More importantly, I wonder how much that outage cost everyone. I've seen many computer users simply "give up using the Internet" when Google is down, returning after a coffee break to resume. It wouldn't surprise me if Wikipedia, at least, had a measurable traffic drop during the outage. I think they even have public MRTG logs, so someone more enterprising than me could confirm that... :-)