By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google wields some 6.4 percent of all Internet traffic around the world, a finding that should do little to quell concerns by consumer advocates that the search engine has grown too large. It’s well known that Google has for years cultivated a 65 percent share of search in the United States, with more overseas. But few have tried to quantify the company’s overall footprint on the Web, which includes the snaking tendrils of dozens of Web services such as YouTube, Google Apps and other products. Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at traffic-watching security firm Arbor Networks, crunched some numbers and found that Google grabbed more than 1 percent of all Internet traffic share since January.
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