Re: Google wants to be your Internet

[Mark Smith <nanog () fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e nosense org>]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:38:06 -0600 (CST)
Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> > 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?
>
> That is if you see a distinction, metaphorical or physical, between
> spambots and real users.

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Woof woof,
Mark.

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