Google bigger than Facebook, Netflix and Instagram combined

[A Guy]

We all know that Google is big, but a study released Monday showing exactly how big Google has become.

Google, and its bevy of services, including Gmail, search, YouTube and Maps, now account for 25% of all Internet traffic in North America, on average, according to Deepfield, an Internet monitoring company that released the data. 25% sounds good but how significant is that in the online world?

To put it another way, Google's bite is bigger than Facebook, Netflix, and Instagram traffic combined, Deepfield said.

Source

A Guy

 

[Lebon14]

Am I surprised? Nope.

 

[jimbo45]

We all know that Google is big, but a study released Monday showing exactly how big Google has become.

Google, and its bevy of services, including Gmail, search, YouTube and Maps, now account for 25% of all Internet traffic in North America, on average, according to Deepfield, an Internet monitoring company that released the data. 25% sounds good but how significant is that in the online world?

To put it another way, Google's bite is bigger than Facebook, Netflix, and Instagram traffic combined, Deepfield said.

Source

A Guy

Hi there
And ????.

So a Gorilla is bigger than a Chimpanzee and ????

I'm not sure this thread has ANYTHING to do with News about / concerning / of interest to / for Windows 7.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[ThrashZone]

Google devices are getting more popular,
I myself was contemplating the switch from iphone 4 on my next contract/ carrier as well lol,
But in all fairness comparing Google with Facebook ?
It would be fairer Facebook and Google+ and I wouldn't get those stats from Google
But yes there is a Gorilla in the room and it's definitely Google.
Can't say many good things about gmail in general compared with others like outlook.com,
But Google does have a very good spell checker in Google toolbar/ far better than Chromes or ie10's
But in shear size/ Surprised no.
I'm more surprised people are not more concerned with the invasion of Privacy by Google.
Possibly people know they're really not that interesting after all lol ?

 

[A Guy]

We all know that Google is big, but a study released Monday showing exactly how big Google has become.

Google, and its bevy of services, including Gmail, search, YouTube and Maps, now account for 25% of all Internet traffic in North America, on average, according to Deepfield, an Internet monitoring company that released the data. 25% sounds good but how significant is that in the online world?

To put it another way, Google's bite is bigger than Facebook, Netflix, and Instagram traffic combined, Deepfield said.

Source

A Guy

Hi there
And ????.

So a Gorilla is bigger than a Chimpanzee and ????

I'm not sure this thread has ANYTHING to do with News about / concerning / of interest to / for Windows 7.

Cheers
jimbo

Google provides countless internet services, and has an OS on many devices. This is computer related news. If it doesn't interest you, move on

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

This also has nothing to do with News about / concerning / of interest to / for Windows 7, Brink posted it though.
http://www.sevenforums.com/news/298564-yahoo-take-flickr-offline-six-hours.html

 

[SIW2]

People always need to find information and communicate, and, I guess, watch movies of cats."

I don't think I have ever knowingly watched a movie of a cat. What on earth for?

 

[ThrashZone]

People always need to find information and communicate, and, I guess, watch movies of cats."

I don't think I have ever knowingly watched a movie of a cat. What on earth for?

I saw Cats eye it was pretty cool/ very young Drew Barrymore I think I was part of a thousand ways to die ?

 

[spencer1]

Internet, Google and.. cats are all computer related lol.

 

[Borg 386]

Collusion

Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

I'm more surprised people are not more concerned with the invasion of Privacy by Google.
Possibly people know they're really not that interesting after all lol ?

Most people barely understand how to operate Facebook's UI, go figure understanding privacy.

I don't think I have ever knowingly watched a movie of a cat. What on earth for?

Cats dominate the internet

 

[jimbo45]

I'm more surprised people are not more concerned with the invasion of Privacy by Google.
Possibly people know they're really not that interesting after all lol ?

Most people barely understand how to operate Facebook's UI, go figure understanding privacy.

I don't think I have ever knowingly watched a movie of a cat. What on earth for?

Cats dominate the internet

Hi there
The whole privacy think is grossly overblown -- even the NSA has a huge overhead so why on earth would it be bothered with monitoring EVERYONE even if it's quite feasible to do it -- complex algorithms would really be required to sift through zillions of PETABYTES of data.

I've been reading the British Sunday papers where it seems they can't even record accurately the numbers of people who they actually have IN JAIL at any one moment -- and haven't a clue on the numbers arriving and leaving the country either --- it's actually true from experience -- I often fly to Iceland or go via EUROSTAR train to Brussels / Paris and while UK immigration check documents ARRIVING into the UK I'm almost never requested to show documents when LEAVING !!. - Especially from St. Pancras International Rail Terminal. There's usually a FRENCH immigration officer on the departure side but I think I've only ever seen a UK one on departure about twice ever since the service started from St. Pancras.

My experience with government based I.T systems in other countries is somewhat similar -- seems Government I.T around the planet doesn't have a very good reputation so I really wouldn't pay any lip service to "Data privacy" concerns from government agencies unless you've got something to hide.

What I WOULD make illegal is for people like GOOGLE to sell data on to those hideous organisations like Credit reference agencies (Experian, Equifax etc) -- since these NEVER act transparently -- people can get turned down when applying for credit cards / mortgages etc on the silliest of whims -- I know of a case just because a person used a certain BUS ROUTE in a dodgy area of the UK they were turned down -- the person refused had an almost impossible job of finding out why until a National newspaper came to the rescue. These organisations IMO are WORSE than the NSA - they should at least be transparent so if people are turned down whether rightly or wrongly then they can do something about it to fix the problem.

That's my only concern on "Data Privacy" -- not the people who've got it but if they sell it on to Third parties.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[bobafetthotmail]

Let's distinguish here.
NSA and UK prison system don't make money.
Harvesting data for commercial research or tailored ads does. (and both are a reality)

The latter has a far higher chance that someone put one of such algorithms in place, or plans to do it in the future (looking suspiciously at you, Google).

UK immigration check documents ARRIVING into the UK I'm almost never requested to show documents when LEAVING !!

That's standard practice on Italy-France and Italy-Croatia too. I assume that they only check to make sure that you aren't an illegal alien and/or a criminal (signaled to Interpol) or whatever. So they don't care about who exits the nation anyway.

But then yeah, I've seen my share of cheap clearly chinese stuff sold from eastern european countries (that allows them to avoid any customs taxes for EU countries), that I highly doubt did pass any serious customs inspection.