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- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For more details about this read here: http://labs.google.com/papers/sawzall.html
- Fizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can actually see the North America Blackout happening. Look in the Northeast of North America around time frame 14:00PST. You'll see a sudden drop off of traffic
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"North America, Europa and Japan.. why do the other places even exist?"
That's because Yahoo! dominates China and many other countries.
remember, this is "Google requests"...not "internet usage" - jprez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty awesome, is it real? or is it like that picture of the world at night...
http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/myagoub/Remote2/World_Light_Night.jpg
It's never night all over the world, except if the sun is blocked by jeebus but i digress - fonebone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only two significant blocks in Africa are Cape Town (right at the Southern tip) and Gauteng (Pretoria and Johannesburg).
- weirdal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2apparently nobody in canada has a computer
- b0rg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wrote some software to rip apart netflow logs aggregated from several large international connections. Being able to see terabytes per hour of network traffic lets you observe some interesting pattern. The most amusing was noting a 15-30 minune spike in traffic directed to small web hosting companies concentrated around the SF bay area at about 11:00 local time every night.
And thus, the pr0nometer was born. - guyincognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"apparently nobody in Canada has a computer" - weirdal
Approximately 90$ of all Canadians live within 50-100 miles from the US border... that's why it looks like that - Gaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Choice of this date is quite weird, as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_North_America_blackout happenned that day!
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too bad it doesn't break it down by most popular searches by region.
I bet most of the searches for used school girl panties come from Asia. - MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only dot that does not fade AT ALL during night time is Tokyo?!
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like the earth is breathing.
http://schlerplotti.typepad.com/quantworks/2005/11/timelapse_visua.html - jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's approximately 90%...
- haxr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sweet. i wish they made a daily animation!
- stimpack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0North America, Europa and Japan.. why do the other places even exist?
- cheese06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wheres africa. haha silly north korea. harhar russia is like drinking vodka whilst shooting kalashnikovs in the air.
- CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Upon first observing the Googlin' goin' on worldiwide, I thought to myself, "WOW, this is so cool" but as I watched it for a few minutes, there appeared to be some kind of wave or pulse like pattern, which looked quite suspicious. At this time, I am cautious of this claim...
- wileybass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That dim spot in the very center of Australia (which is the remote little town of Alice Springs) is where I was in the time frame of this. Its funny because their is only 30,000 people in the town (there's nothing else until you hit the coasts). Its interesting, it lights up as much as it does.
- ivancio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool
- mkjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"drinking vodka whilst shooting kalashnikovs in the air."
LOL, amazing social study man ;-)
That Japanise bloke needs some sleep. London also seems pretty active. - Shrill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amazing.
- TheCheeta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The dots that are intriguing to me are the single dots that are in the middle of nowhere, like WAY north Canadia, looks like someone was awake in Greenland, the Aleutian Islands, etc. Cool.
- inceebee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Look at Tokyo. It never dims!
- f|ame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0europe and america owning it up xD
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0holy crap
- Shrill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Would be awesome if it was in Flash and you could zoom actually... that would be very interesting :)
- terafunker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you look carefully at the southeastern US you'll notice that the city of Atlanta seems to stay on pretty consistantly.
BTW, Canadians rock. - alterself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0all internet traffic is not google traffic....so NY wouldnt have to show up neccassairly. Altough...I would think there would be SOME dropoff...
- duestown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting that the blackout only seems to be visible in the Michigan-Ohio-Toronto-Buffalo area. New York doesn't seem to take a hit, even though the whole city was out. Maybe they just weren't out long enough for it to be visible.
- ZerozenOnes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The pulse is to be expected as it simply represents day and night traveling around the globe. Like jcs goog so nicely puts it, the earth is breathing.
- quirky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who thinks up stuff like this?
it's cool!
q - jogeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you haven't caught on yet, the pulse or wave is night sweeping around the earth, people usually don't google while they are sleeping.
- rdn98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow thats pretty cool
- BadMammaJamma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is one dot in the South Pacific that is glowing constantly. It's around the area where the Plane from LOST went down. WTF?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^ I don't know how this got here.... sorry.
- mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If the URL was something else this will be questionable but since it's right from the labs... cool. +dugg
- SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess nobody googles in the Dakotas.
- pete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think that solid white dot is me!?!
- 40bslove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dug
- mathie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google mission is not done until the whole map light up for 24/7
- ptknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tokyo surfers rock! The light never fades out...
- oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very neat and astro high!! I wondered what the pulse was. That's how it hit me, as a pulse... Then it goes from Right to Left. I should know why, but it won't come to me.. I really should... I can't wait until google and nasa get those maps down right. Like down to the house.. I know they have the data to do it.
Farm OUT!!
Cyborg - p0gue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Networking? F- yeah! those were the days! 1989. Mac SE, system 6. 2400baud external modem, vt100 and telnet.
It was pretty hot w/ 1 meg of ram and 20 meg hd. plenty to run MS word, photoshop and pagemaker. though not all at once. - hoowahman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^--- cool
- outside4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Let's see it hybridized on google maps!
- sergiemag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dang! russia has like 5 dots.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wait I don't get it...explain...
Why would you turn autorun off? Do you guys sometimes put in a CD that you loaded a virus on or somthing... I have no virus protection of adware on becuase well, I know what I'm doing. Get educated on your computers before speaking such nonsense. oh and about sony, I think sony is cool. They have same purdy things, but I dont buy much these days. I only buy things that seem to be productive for my life. no ipods... - Cyphase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Let's see it hybridized on google maps!" - outside4
Damn it outside4, I thought that as soon as I saw it, but you beat me to it :). It would be awesome though. Even better if you saw the search travel from wherever in the world to 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, 94043 :). - 2500mg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Japan rocks it 24/7.
(and Canada only has a population of 30 million with a bigger area than the US...) - slhilbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Interesting. Any newer image out there? 2 years ago!?!?!?!
Stuart
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