Google wants to be your Internet

Sun Jan 21 01:20:24 UTC 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.