Affected US internet traffic drops from 15GBPS to 1GBPS!

The below graph shows average internet traffic across ten leading US ISPs when Google routed their services through Asian servers that weren’t up to the job. Google services including search, Gmail and Calendars were unavailable for two hours.

Is Google too powerful? Its services now account for around 5% of all internet traffic. Does this graph show how reliant we have become on one specific company?

Google’s argument that users are only one click away from choosing competitors instead may hold true for Search, but with every new service that the big G offers, are we not becoming more and more dependent on one company.

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http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/05/the-great-googlelapse/