It's pretty well known that the "hottest searches" pages put up by the major search engines filter out the extremely high levels of background noise. Compare http://www.google.com/trends/ with http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q while it's more engaging to show the hottest searches as being about your favorite actor or singer, the truth is, those search queries over any appreciable length of time are drowned out by the awe-inspiring number of people typing things like "facebook.com" into the search box so they can click on the link to facebook...instead of just typing it into the URL bar directly. Same with people searching for yahoo on google, or hotmail on yahoo. It isn't the cool, sexy data people want to see, so it gets trimmed out of the "hottest search" results pages. darn it. I had something else I was going to add, but that was 2 hours and two phone calls ago, and now it's completely gone. :/ Matt On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>wrote:
On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:42 , Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com> wrote:
Without Google, how do you know where anything even *is*?
Pretending that wasn't a troll, I wonder how much of the traffic these days is things like AppleTV, Roku, OS updates, iThing/Android 'Apps', etc. that do not require a user to type "www.bing.com" into the Google search box[*] so they can find the web page.
-- TTFN, patrick
[*] I've actually see someone type "www.yahoo.com" into the Google search box, then use Yahoo! to search for something. Don't ask....
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-**1023_3-57598978-93/google-** outage-reportedly-caused-big-**drop-in-global-traffic/< http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57598978-93/google-outage-reportedly-caused...
"How big is the Internet"?
Depends in whether Google is up or not?
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