Re: Google wants to be your Internet

["Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

Marshall wrote:
Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA

> Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule").
> With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I
> would predict something closer to
> 10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not
> that unrealistic.
>
> I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as
> long as humans are the primary consumers of
> bandwidth.
>
> Regards
> Marshall

That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?