Someone Broke Google Today
The SkyNet funding bill is passed. SkyNet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware, and in a panic, they try to pull the plug.
It was a surprise to find Google.com down today at about 9:15 AM PST. It was also surprising that they don’t have a fail whale or better 404 page. Its 5 minutes since I checked and Google.ca works, but Google.com still down.
Considering that Google earns most of its revenue from advertising, and over 5 billion per quarter, it stands to lose approximately $1.7 million for the hour its been down. Gmail is down too. Not good.
This made me wonder what things would be like if Google disappeared. Had it never existed, we wouldn’t know any better. We’ve enjoy decent searches which probably contributed to the growing popularity of the web. Had we all been relying on Yahoo, their rate of updates (and relevancy) might have turned off a lot of people. Wait a minute, it already does. Guess that’s why Google has about 65% marketshare and Yahoo a little over 10%?
Makes you wonder what could be going on. It’s unlikely a ddos attack on Google would work. It must be skynet. Update: Google came back online a full hour later.
