[1] shows a full packet capture of a google-internal RPC transaction. As a xoogler familiar with the product in question, I can tell you that that packet had no business being on an external link; That was only sent datacenter to datacenter. I was in a conference war-room shortly after this dropped, and the universal reaction was "Fuck."

[1] http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/what-yahoo-and-g...