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Shipping Wikipedia in 3 seconds
Last week on Friday September 16 – right ahead of the weekend – our servers had a good reason to celebrate. They were delivering a record-high 4.5GB of avast updates to our users EACH SECOND. AVAST has over 130 million active users, but of course not everybody turns on their computer every day. On average, about half of all users turn on their machine every day and receive an update. Friday was therefore not quite ordinary, as the 4.5 GB-per-second-traffic-fury lasted for 1 hour before subsiding to normal levels. Read more…
WebRep and long, hot legs
I don’t know about you, but I really like taking the new avast! 6.0 features – WebRep, for example — for a test drive. With the beta 6.0 installed, I opened Google.com and quickly typed in “Longhotlegs” to see what would pop up. I even forgot to add the spaces. In my top five results, there was a stocking e-shop for women (no rating), strip bar in the UK (no rating), the TMZ celebrity blog (green rating), and – my favorite – a Wikipedia entry for Pholciadae.
This spider family includes the creature commonly known as “daddy long-legs”.
From the WebRep perspective, Google.com has a “good rating with many votes” while en.wikipedia.org has a “good rating with few voters”. Read more…
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