Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic


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Very misleading. It should read "Sites that used GoSquared analytics suffered a 40% hit." How many of the top websites in the world use GoSquared?
Check the list of top 100: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites

Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Blogspot, Ebay, Bing, tumblr. Companies this size do not use a new analytic startup run by 5 people and a dog.

Were these sites affected by google.com being down? Sure. People who open up google.com and type in "Amazon" had to wait a few minutes to buy chips. But anyone who goes to amazon.com or opens a bookmark would not see a difference.

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So 40% of people don't know how to use Bing or another search engine.

 

Just shows that 60% of people rather use a subpar search engine instead of the best alternative there is available

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I've set so many home pages to Google.com I figured that's partially why. The go browse and nothing comes up. Also I notice people putting addresses (such as "Live.com" into Google search. Hell my own mom "Google's" google.com. LOL.

 

I generally don't visit google much but still I figured this is how many people browse the web, they search for whatever they are looking for even if they know the direct location as to where it is. If google isn't working then yeah, traffic drops like crazy.

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Just shows that 60% of people rather use a subpar search engine instead of the best alternative there is available

Based on personal experience.. Google is by far the best search engine.  I can google something and I will find it.  Bing.. no so much.

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Based on personal experience.. Google is by far the best search engine.  I can google something and I will find it.  Bing.. no so much.

Same here. I try Bing from time to time and for me it still doesn't get the job done.

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