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Re: Google wants to be your Internet

  • From: Alexander Harrowell
  • Date: Sat Jan 20 16:40:46 2007
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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?