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Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40%

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-some-google dept.

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."'

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  1. Details on Google Apps Status Dashboard by Novus · · Score: 5, Informative

    See Google Apps Status Dashboard for more details (hover over red outage dots for times).

  2. As I keep having to say to my older family.. by sjwt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pro Tip: Rather than Googling 'Facebook' you could use a bookmark, or try www.facebook.com

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  3. Cause by DarkOx · · Score: 5, Informative

    How much of the plunge was due to lack of search / app availability vs third party pages not loading properly do to analytics and other google dependencies?

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  4. 40%? No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is how the "40%" looked in real life:
    http://www.crackajack.de/2013/08/18/google-goes-down-for-2-minutes-fucks-up-100-of-all-journalists/

    (Mind the circle in the yellow graphics: It shows the real decline in internet traffic at the German Internet Exchange (DE-CIX), the largest internet exchange point worldwide.)

    Further reading: What is DE-CIX? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-CIX

  5. Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? by mcvos · · Score: 5, Informative

    The fact that a minute downtime is big news is definitely saying something. Both about the reliability of Google's servers, and the impact of their products.