Google Mystery Domain Reroutes 3% of Net Surfers

An anonymous reader writes "A new Google domain — 1e100.net, a nod to the company's famously misspelled name — is now the net's 44th most visited site. Google says the domain is used to 'identify servers' on its internal network, hinting that reverse DNS plays a role. The domain was registered in September and launched in October, about the same time Google unveiled Spanner, a new addition to its backend infrastructure designed to shift loads automatically among its data centers."

Comments

Re:1e400 or?

[IceCreamGuy]

1e100=1

Scientific notation does not work like that.
1e1 = 1*10^1 = 10
1e10 = 1*10^10 = 10000000000
1e100 = 1*10^100 = Slashdot doesn't let you write 100 zeros in a row. You get the idea.

Re:1e400 or?

[Stooshie]

Erm, ... no! In what universe does 1x10^100 (or 1e100) = 1?

Re:1e400.net?

[azav]

1^100 = 1.