This is what happens when you raid Mar-a-Lago.
You joke but there are definitely going to be people making this connection for real.
Literally how?
maybe also triggered by this? /s
Ask HN: Google Search down?
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#142No Worries! The Google Server in Mountain View has had a disk failed in it's RAID and therefore the sqlite-DB has only half the iops to it's disposal. A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon. These are the moments why Google is a proud Amazon Prime customer.
I know many people’s immediate reaction is that 500GB seems small, but remember, they’re not storing the whole internet — just an index of it.
The whole internet would need a much larger RAID, with literally dozens of hard disks.
Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?
#143No Worries! The Google Server in Mountain View has had a disk failed in it's RAID and therefore the sqlite-DB has only half the iops to it's disposal. A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon. These are the moments why Google is a proud Amazon Prime customer.
Sometimes you read something so ridiculous that it feels true.
But i have to say: Personally, i don't run k8s and it's ecosystem and am just entering the whole "declarative world" with NixOS.. but nonetheless, these occasions are very rare, Google/YT Operations is just so impressive and has to be up there, if not a the very top.
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#144Hi guise this is my first push to prod, hope you guys like it
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#146Last time google search was down I just switched to my back up, askjeeves. I'll give that a shot.
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#147Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching. How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great uptime, or I have terrible memory.
Bing works pretty well most of the time. I switched my personal primary search engine to bing around the beginning of this year after noticing a marked degradation of Google search quality.
In fact, anecdotally, Bing is markedly better at narrow search results (quoted phrases, excluding or including specific words, etc).
Google on the other hand is significantly better at what I’d call fuzzy searches, where you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for but have some vague idea (some esoteric spelling, or that type of apple that has unique properties but you can’t remember the name of, etc.)
Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?
#148Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching. How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great uptime, or I have terrible memory.
You can work without being tracked and profiled here: https://duckduckgo.com/
Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?
#149At Cronitor we use google.com as one of our live tests of our uptime monitoring functionality and we saw intermittent downtime from 6:35-7:03
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#150Noticed 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.
I think you're looking at revenue. Year end 2021 was $257,637M, divide by 4 = $64.4B per quarter. Net income was $76B or about $19B per quarter.
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings...