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Real Joke: Google Uses 21x More Bandwidth Than It Pays For

Dec 4th, 2008

A recent study conducted by Precursor LLC, a consulting firm bankrolled by major telecom companies, alleged that Google "is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth," the company's share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and it's bandwidth use "is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost." Scott Cleland, the author of the study, is known a frequent Google critic, stated that Google actually used 21 times more bandwidth than the company paid for. Here is the ...