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Google Now Accounts for 6.4% of Internet Traffic

The Internet is growing fast, but Google is growing even faster. According to online security company Arbor Networks, Google now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic.

This is a new record for Google, as it gained more than 1% of all Internet traffic share since January. Now, only one global ISP handles more traffic, and a lot of that traffic is – unsurprisingly – Google’s traffic.

» via Mashable

(via world-shaker)

world-shaker:

As smartphone and mobile web usage continues to soar, users are spending more and more time on social networks like Facebook (Facebook) and Twitter (Twitter). But how is the mobile web impacting the oldest form of Internet (Internet) communication, e-mail?

For desktop Internet users, e-mail may be playing second-fiddle to the likes of Facebook and social games like FarmVille, but on mobile devices, e-mail is still number one.
 
In fact, new research from The Nielsen Company suggests that e-mail represents 41.6% of mobile Internet time for users in the United States.

How Mobile is Affecting the Way We E-mail