Did Google's outage kill 5% of the Internet? (ComputerWorld)

[Drew Wilson]

That's the assertion of Arbor Networks' Craig Labovitz, who in a Thursday blog post and Web traffic graph noted that when Google has an hour and a half outage this week, Internet traffic slowed by 5%.

We all know Google gets a lot of traffic. Just about everyone hits the Google search a few times a day. There are also a lot of Gmailers and Youtube users out there. Google's other services generate a lot of hits as well..

But something that Labovitz points out is that Google has its hand in a lot more. Its Adsense and DoubleClick networks do display advertising on millions of websites. Its Web analytics runs on millions more. All of these sites were also affected by the outage.

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I was wondering what was going on.

[1cooldude]

EU is trying to wrestle away the dominant internet control from the Americans and it may be some type of a poison pill they are testing.