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Google Outage Caused by Asian "Traffic Jam"

in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.
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Google Outage Caused by Asian “Traffic Jam”

in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.
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And Someday We'll Have Ads on Every Single One of Them

in News on July 25, 2008 at 12:05 pm PT

In 1998, Google indexed 26 million unique URLs. In 2000, it indexed one billion. And now, eight years later, it has indexed one trillion. Astonishing to find that the Web contains that many unique URLs. And thing is, there are still more to be indexed.

And Someday We’ll Have Ads on Every Single One of Them

in News on July 25, 2008 at 12:05 pm PT

In 1998, Google indexed 26 million unique URLs. In 2000, it indexed one billion. And now, eight years later, it has indexed one trillion. Astonishing to find that the Web contains that many unique URLs. And thing is, there are still more to be indexed.