90% of Internet Traffic is Spam - Really ???

At least that's the message we have been gertting from ISPs and sites that monitor internet traffic.



Last night all Google services went off line for a few minutes, the search engine, and all google services, G-Mail etc.



If Google being off line for a few minutes and that causing a 40% drop in internet traffic



Totalausfall bei Google: 40 Prozent weniger Web-Traffic - SPIEGEL ONLINE



how can one relate that to the claim that 90% of the internet traffic is Spam?



If that were true, google going off line should have caused just a tiny blip.



PS: I just noticed that the English summary talks about "pageviews" which in my mind would exclude email and thus spam.



But the original German article talks about "world-wide internet activity"



Totalausfall bei Google: 40 Prozent weniger Web-Traffic - SPIEGEL ONLINE



which of course includes email and thus spam.



I find that more and more - shoddy reporting.

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