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Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

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Noticed it was down for about 2 minutes, but up again. As with any big outage, I wonder how much money was lost in those 2 minutes...

OK, so in round numbers, Google makes roughly $65 billion in profit per quarter. Dividing by 90, is around $722 million per day, which is roughly $200,000 per second. 2 minutes is quite the expensive fuckup.

But do they actually cough up 2 minutes worth of profit because they were down for 2 minutes?

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#123

Any bets on whether it turns out to be BGP or DNS? I'll guess DNS, it's always DNS.

Wrong error for DNS I think. I'm getting 500s, not an unknown host error or similar.

Routing server config? Interesting that its intermittent, I wonder if that tells us something about the internal routing of requests.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#125

https://search.brave.com is working fine

stop. spamming. brave.

an alternative search engine to replace the service that's down? ... you seem awfully mad to be policing the comments.

It's possible to use a non-datamining search engine while being completely bearish on crypto too. Google needs more downtime.

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