Noted futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil has been heard to say that he considers Google, with its millions of users performing untold millions of searches per day (not to mention 5% of global web traffic), to be one step towards truly artificial intelligence. If that's true, then I guess the below -- an outage from earlier this month -- is a stumble on that path. (I'd call it a "senior moment" but Google's only 10 years old!)
As they say on the Arbor Networks site, this is what it looks like "when 5% of the Internet disappears on an otherwise uneventful Thursday morning. . ."http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/images/googlelapse.jpg
I was completely unable to access my Google mail client (Gmail) at that time, but because I'm so used to nonstop uptime with their services, I actually thought it was a proxy or hardware problem. Silly me. Next time, I'll start with thinking it's Google's fault, and work backwards to Microsoft.
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