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Donnerstag, den 15. Oktober 2009 um 15:34 Uhr |
It probably won't come as a surprise that Google is attributed with being the single greatest source of Internet traffic on Earth. The company reportedly accounts for a whopping 6% of all Internet traffic -- much of which comes from its popular video sharing site YouTube. What is surprising, however, is how consolidated the Web's traffic has become.
Looking back five years, Internet traffic was distributed among tens of thousands of networks, and two years ago, 15,000 networks accounted for about 50% of traffic. Today, only 150 networks control some 50% of all online traffic according to a recent report by Arbor Networks, and as few as 30 companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Google are responsible for 30% of traffic. ...
Source TechSpot, By Matthew DeCarlo, October 14, 2009
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