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-big-drop-in-global-traffic/>
"How big is the Internet"?
Depends in whether Google is up or not?
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