Google Takes 6% of All Internet Traffic
It is clear that Google is internet superpower. They generated incredible traffic through its services. But no one knows how much it is. Well, at least for me.
After Two years study, Arbor Networks found that search engine giant accounts for the largest all Internet traffic worldwide. Google carries no less than 6% of Internet traffic A number that really open my eyes!
The study also revealed that Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and other 27 companies scored to 30% of all traffic. P2P networks share dropped considerably from 40% to , since although it was reported some time ago that had 40%, now owns 18%. Why? Peoples are pouring into streaming services and 2.0 apps now.
Never imagine that 6% of internet traffic was born in a Californian garage.
via: NYTimes
Google Remains the Flu Online
Due to the worldwide concern about the influenza, Google decided to apply the same technique to predict outbreaks of this virus in Mexico, as it has in other countries.
This tool can detect disease trends in our country to a calculation “near real time” the number of flu cases is in other parts of the world and that warn of new outbreaks in advance.
How does it work?
As explained in a press conference, ‘Google Flu’, uses a methodology quite simple but effective measures related to outbreaks in a number of queries made by users on topics that are directly related to the disease.
Thus it is possible to estimate the number of cases of disease in a given country.
“When we have symptoms of a disease, we turn to the Internet, as we go whenever we get information,” explained company spokesman. In fact, the designers of Google searches found that people did on their symptoms were “related” to the statistics published on this disease some health institutions ended.
Advantages
Google Flu offers a world map with the influenza color evolution in each country, and another page where you can see on a graph if the bird is increasing or decreasing and compare it with developments followed in other years.
What differentiates this new tool, other statistics, such as surveys that are conducted each year to doctors and patients during the months of highest incidence of influenza, is the immediacy, since the former usually take a week or two, while ‘Google Flu’ is updated every time a user conducts a search.
Background
In late 2008, Google released this tool to visualize in real time the evolution of influenza outbreaks in the United States.
In the case of the United States managed to validate the information with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, United States (CDC for short in English), so for the Mexican case the tool is only found in an experimental phase, because these data are not yet checked with the official authorities, ie with those provided by the Ministry of Health.
YouTube Receives 1,000 million Visits per Day
YouTube, the online videos site part of the Google, receives 1,000 million visits daily, said the site’s founder, Chad Hurley, in a video.
“Today, three years ago, Steve (Chen) (the co-founder of YouTube) and I stood in front of our offices and we jokingly crowned the ‘kings’ of the media,” Harley says in the official blog entitled Y.000.000.000uTube .
“We just jump from the owners to join Google and shared our goal to organizing the world’s information (in our case video) and make it easily and quickly accessible to anyone, anywhere. Today I am proud to say we’re having over 1,000 million hits a day on YouTube. It is a great moment in our short history and we owe you, “he says.
Hurley said that technology is their key factor behind its success. YouTube technologies allow people loaded and viewed video quickly. Their platform allows anyone with Internet camera share their experiences.
“Three years after the acquisition, our platform and our business continues to grow and evolve. We remain committed to the same principles that had informed the site previously, but we know that things have changed. As broadband grew, so did the quality our videos. As we begin to notice contained a demand for longer, include more programs and movies on the site, “he says.
Twitter Will Provide French, German, Italian and Spanish Versions
Twitter, the micro blogging site with rapid growth, is looking for volunteer translators to create French, German, Italian and Spanish versions.
For now Twitter.com is only available for now in English and Japanese.
Biz Stone, cofounder of the company based in San Fracisco (Western U.S.) announced in a message on Friday that they planned to create other languages versions of its website starting French, German, Italian and Spanish .
To make it happen, Twitter will invite a “small group” of Twitter users to become translators
“We are thrilled to make more people use Twitter in their native language!” Stone said.
Twitter allows its users to messages with no more than 140 characters, called “tweets”. The site has rapid growth since it was launched in August 2006, claiming to have 50 million users.
PayPal SSL Certificate Hole on IE, Chrome and Safari
Paypal users are being advised to switch browsers if they are using either Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Safari. They should use Mozilla’s Firefox instead to protect themselves from an SSL Certificate vulnerability.
Hacker on Monday published a counterfeit secure sockets layer certificate that exploits a gaping hole in a Microsoft library used by all three of those browsers. The bug was reported nine weeks ago but Microsoft has not fixed the problem yet. The hole exists in CryptoAPI. The article at The Register notes that a tool called SSLSniff can cause all of the three browsers to display spoofed pages.
“We’re working to see if there are any technical workarounds on the PayPal side which can be put into place,” said a Paypal spokeswoman.
Fortunately, Mozilla developers patched the hole a few days after Marlinspike’s demo. That means if you’re on Windows, the only way to protect yourself against this critical vulnerability is to use Firefox versions 3.5. At least until Microsoft fixes the CryptoAPI, whenever that may be.
Via: the register
