Comments on: The Day of Doom (If Google went down..)

By: Pete Jefferson

Pete Jefferson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:56:57 +0000

False alarm. It was Tiscali Broadband’s access to Google that was at fault!

By: Pete Jefferson

Pete Jefferson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:36:33 +0000

Update on previous mail: It appears that it is the Tiscali access to google that is at fault as my mate on a difference broadband provider is presently OK.

By: Pete Jefferson

Pete Jefferson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:21:14 +0000

12:10 16 June 2009
Google is Down!!!
No luck with google.co.uk or google.com, maps seems to work and eventually got onto google mail. Lets see if the predictions are correct! PWJ

By: Soda

Soda — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:31:06 +0000

No one care about AOL Anymore.

By: jamy015

jamy015 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:37:56 +0000

@fantaboy796: Because back then they didn’t have it. Now we do have it and are so used to it that we can’t live without it.

By: fantaboy796

fantaboy796 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:58:13 +0000

thats stupid. if the world survived so long without internet before it even exzisted wat makes u think we will all die when it goes down?

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:01:09 +0000

u 4got bt orkut dude….

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:15:49 +0000

While I agree this would be bad I believe your initial premise is wrong. Most users would simply try again later. Those in a rush would pick their alternative search engine. In my case – and many others – that would not be yahoo. So basically the other search engines might see a 25-50% increase in usage for a short while, but not 400% as in your example. And even if these other search engines would fall down, the majority of the users will again simply give up and try again later. Those addicted enough to still need to surf around will end up on so diverse sites that it would be called normal surfing, and thus not be an increase in traffic at all.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:13:57 +0000

wouldn’t youtube go down at the beginning since google owns it?

By: Eerik

Eerik — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:20:10 +0000

Woah, that’s bad!

By: Briongloid

Briongloid — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:05:01 +0000

Now there’s an apocalyptic notion and a half!

I think I might be in danger of actually going outside, maybe even something drastic like taking my dog for a walk.

By: STUD

STUD — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:32:50 +0000

I have already faced this. Once some problem creped in with our ISPs servers and no GOOGLE’s service worked for full 48 hours.

We were dead

no gmail no youtube no orkut no GOOGLE SEARCH

I know how my two days passed without the big G around

By: Eerik

Eerik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:04:18 +0000

We’ll see about that…

By: Kitkat

Kitkat — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:22:02 +0000

My blog will be the last to go down! Wahahaha... Kitkat's last blog post..Wi-Fi and loose change mean broadband access

By: Eerik

Eerik — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:29:44 +0000

Oh.. Thanks!

By: Troy Smith

Troy Smith — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:04:06 +0000

I’m giving this two thumbs-up because your stumble detector is broken!!

By: Eerik

Eerik — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:43:50 +0000

Yeah, probably…

By: Christo

Christo — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:44:30 +0000

But wait…
Even these blogs will fall, because Stumblers will have nothing else to do (I stumbled on this page)