Google Outage Caused 5% Internet Traffic Decline -- Google Network Outage -- InformationWeek
May 15, 2009
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. "[B]ut if you happen to be Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice," he said...
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. "[B]ut if you happen to be Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice," he said...
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