Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40%

cold fjord writes "Is 40% anything to worry about? Sky News reports, 'Worldwide internet traffic plunged by around 40% as Google services suffered a complete black-out, according to web analytics experts. The tech company said all of its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive went down for between one and five minutes last night. The reason for the outage is not yet known, and Google refused to provide any further information when contacted by Sky News Online. According to web analytics firm GoSquared, global internet traffic fell by around 40% during the black-out, reflecting Google's massive grip on the web. "That's huge," said GoSquared developer Simon Tabor. "As internet users, our reliance on Google.com being up is huge."'

Comments

Google isn't part of the internet anymore

[Arancaytar]

The internet is now part of Google.

Could've been worse

[Sockatume]

Imagine if the NSA servers went down, nothing would be getting through.

Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine?

[JustOK]

but how can you find other search engines without googling them?

Re:As I keep having to say to my older family..

[yotto]

I'll just search for "site:slashdot.org how do I get to facebook without using google"

Re:Google.com?

[Noughmad]

If you use google.fr, that's insensitive Claude for you!