GOOGLE WAS LEFT with egg on its face when it appeared to run out of bandwidth a few days ago.
While most people think that the gigantic search engine network should have more than enough thick pipes criss-crossing the interwibble, a Google Chrome development manager made this appear not to be the case.
Google Chrome Releases programme manager Mark Larsen wrote in his bog that he could not issue a Dev channel release this week. "We just didn't have the bandwidth to push a Dev channel release," he wrote.
What, not enough bandwidth? Was all Google's bandwidth stolen by P2P pirates?
In fact Larsen had made shome mishtake in his bog entry. Obviously he was contacted by Google's press office and told to make a bit of a change to his prose. He changed the word bandwidth to "test capacity."
Go back to bed world, Google has not run out of bandwidth. The interweb will not grind to a halt, Google's Chrome development team has merely run out of test capacity.
We guess it will find some spare test capacity if it looks under the sofa cushions. µ
This is like news, and then not news in the same article!
My eyes now feel cheated you bastards.
Yeah great non-story, and theres a surprise to see who its from. Nice work Nick, youve taken 3 day old news, thats already been corrected, and then post it as if its new news, and at the end say, all is well, nothing has changed.
Idiot.
No one forces you to read inquirer stories. You know what these guys are about, don't visit the site if you don't like it!
Seems The Inquirer is running from bandwidth too, browsing on your site getting slower every passing day.
7:50 AM CT (US)
Google News link is dead, never had this happen before, I've tried 3 times in the last 3 minutes and still get the error.
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
Server Error
The service you requested is not available yet.
Please try again in 30 seconds.
@ onlyaman
The site's not getting slower, we're just falling asleep with all the no news drivel the INQ seems to pump out these days.
Google itself didn't run out of bandwidth. The Chrome Release Channel WOULD have run out of bandwidth had they pushed a Dev Release that week. That week they pushed both Stable and Beta releases, which means that EVERYONE using Chrome 1.x AND Chrome 2.x beta were simultaneously being updated to new versions. That's a lot of simultaneous downloads so they didn't risk sending updates for the Dev channel that week.
Based on the sheer number of problems I was already having with Google this morning before even reading this article, I'm starting to wonder if there *is* a shred of truth to it. I was unable to log into Google Talk for about 20 minutes, and everything I've tried to search for using Google this morning has taken forever to load. I ran some connection tests and there's nothing going on on my end.
He means DEVELOPMENT BANDWIDTH - not enough human resources available to perform this additional task. My god, how incompetent can a hack be!?
Google needs like a minute to load here in Germany for the last hour or so.
Pinky:
So, Brain; what are we going to do today?
Brain:
Try to take over the world by creating an inter twined demand based market of keyword guessing and then create dev web browser uses an exploitive anagram engine to jumble the word search and overheat the network servers causing exponential generation of green house gases causing the ozone to depleted rapidly
Google "p2p"? :-)
Apropos slow Inq web site: disable JavaScript, block ads, flush flash and your browser will fly. It's the crap that slows down the Inq.
Note: w/o JavaScript, you cannot place comments at the Inq - shame!
We often in QA and Dev refer to "bandwidth" being the limiting factor in producing or testing, and generally comes down to raw resources. Sometimes on larger projects the "bandwidth" might be the build systems get behind, but generally it means there aren't enough warm seats.
It's exciting and refreshing not to have "toe the party line" editing. I want some fight in my news, some friction, some action and some god damn energy. Even if it's not 100% accurate or up to the minute.
You guys that read 5+ other tech news sites, are they exciting? If The Inq is late with a story, please only whinge if it's not exciting.
I don't bother with any other tech site, except maybe Toms Hardware when I'm buying a new piece of hardware. And I don't bother with them because they usually go on for several pages waffling.
Is there a "comedy" site? Well, I mean a "great" one. Nevermind.
The author and most of the commenters are silly. As they have later explained, the "bandwidth" is their slang for the "human capacity to do the necessary testing" before the releases.
Their technical bandwidth to upload and allow downloads of Chrome etc. is greater by roughly 5 orders of magnitude.
somebody is missing the point. This is hilarious. I LOL.