Google = 25% of ALL Internet Traffic & A Look At Google Data Centers

groveChuck · Jul 24, 2013

http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/07/google-inc-goog-sets-a-new-internet-record/

How big?

The study showed that Google Inc accounts for 25% of all traffic from internet connected devices during an average day.
According to the analytics firm, the study includes all computer and mobile devices as well as game consoles, home media appliances, and other embedded devices.

Deepfield emphasized that the device traffic share of Google Inc is larger if the study only included computers and mobile devices.
According to the analytics firm, the search engine giant’s device traffic share is bigger than the combined share of Facebook Inc, Netflix, Inc. and Twitter.

And some surpising developments:

The analytics firm noted that Google Inc’s rapidly growing share in internet traffic was driven by the company’s deployment of thousands of its servers among internet providers worldwide.
The search engine giant quietly deployed its servers to a majority of internet providers in the United States.

Google Inc has been spending more than $1 billion every quarter for the improvement or expansion of its infrastructures. :shocked:

Google spokesperson Liz Markman said the improvement of Google’s servers enables better delivery of content and services to consumers.
It also improves the efficiency of streaming large data such as YouTube videos.

So that got me thinking about Google's servers, from yesterday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform):

The original hardware (circa 1998) that was used by Google when it was located at Stanford University included:
Sun Microsystems Ultra II with dual 200 MHz processors, and 256 MB of RAM. This was the main machine for the original Backrub system.
2 × 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers donated by Intel, they included 512 MB of RAM and 10 × 9 GB hard drives between the two. It was on these that the main search ran.
F50 IBM RS/6000 donated by IBM, included 4 processors, 512 MB of memory and 8 × 9 GB hard drives.
Two additional boxes included 3 × 9 GB hard drives and 6 x 4 GB hard drives respectively (the original storage for Backrub). These were attached to the Sun Ultra II.
IBM disk expansion box with another 8 × 9 GB hard drives donated by IBM.
Homemade disk box which contained 10 × 9 GB SCSI hard drive.

To today- some cool photography of Google Data Centers. I did a shoot at a competitor's Data Center, but it was probably only 10% the size of one of these.
An impressive array of hardware, software, power and cooling- might make a decent render farm :happy: