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Re: Google wants to be your Internet

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Sat Jan 20 20:22:46 2007


On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:36 PM, 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?

I tend to take the long view.