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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 06:46 PM
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Google Outage Caused 5% Internet Traffic Decline
As a consequence of Google's problems, business Web sites that depended on services like Google Analytics took twice as long to load on average and were twice as likely to fail.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
May 15, 2009 06:40 PM

The service disruption at Google on Thursday morning caused a 5% drop in Internet traffic, underscoring the extent to which Internet users and other Web sites depend on the company.

Arbor Networks chief scientist Craig Labovitz observed in a blog post that failures happen. "But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice," he said ... http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217500452&subSection=News
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-15-09 06:48 PM
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1. Software as a Service. SaaS. Cloud computing. I wonder who the aaSS is.
I'm not sure it's google...

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