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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by xwolfi on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:55PM (#29355120)
You alread listed 3 single points of failure. I get what you mean: the entry point search engine, the global cache and the global backend/storage/compute.

But look I live in Hong Kong, I dont feel that way: there are other backends, we could survive without the caching for a while and Google is forbidden for 1.4bn people who get on with it very well...

Depends what you call the internet. Yes, facebook and whatsapp are gone the minute one of those 3 companies screwed up.

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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by rdp36 on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:41PM (#29356351)
OK, you think 1.4 billion people without the freedom to search is ok? LOL.
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by genewitch on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:00AM (#29358187)
I wouldn't say Google is search, per se. I haven't used Google for search in a few years.
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by tatersolid on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:12AM (#29359577)
If Google search went away for more than 24 hours, Bing/DDG/others would quickly get overwhelmed as people learned about alternatives and switched.

Bing might be able to auto-scale using Azure infrastructure but there might not be enough hardware even there.

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