Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam - New York Times
Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube, owned by Google, consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000.
No wonder Google is helping to build a new transpacific fiber cable.
The Stirred Up website has seen a doubling of traffic in the past few days thanks to an article on the Parisian catacombs from our very first, web-only issue becoming the top search result for “cataflics” (”catacomb cops” in French) on Google. Likewise one of the images from the article is the top result in Google Image Search for the same search term. This is an example of the long tail in action. Of course, now the challenge is the keep these Google searchers and convince them to check out the rest of the magazine.