top | item 32393082 (no title) jameshe | 3 years ago Noticed it was down for about 2 minutes, but up again. As with any big outage, I wonder how much money was lost in those 2 minutes... discuss order hn newest russellbeattie|3 years ago OK, so in round numbers, Google makes roughly $65 billion in profit per quarter. Dividing by 90, is around $722 million per day, which is roughly $200,000 per second.2 minutes is quite the expensive fuckup. game-of-throws|3 years ago I'd use revenue instead of profit, since their expenses don't disappear just because the site is down.If Google is walking down the street and stops to pick up a million dollar bill, it actually loses money. Aperocky|3 years ago But do they actually cough up 2 minutes worth of profit because they were down for 2 minutes? xhrpost|3 years ago I think you're looking at revenue. Year end 2021 was $257,637M, divide by 4 = $64.4B per quarter. Net income was $76B or about $19B per quarter.https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings... load replies (1) quickthrower2|3 years ago Expensive for you, but for Google it is nothing. A bug in their Ad placement stack would cost more. load replies (1)
russellbeattie|3 years ago OK, so in round numbers, Google makes roughly $65 billion in profit per quarter. Dividing by 90, is around $722 million per day, which is roughly $200,000 per second.2 minutes is quite the expensive fuckup. game-of-throws|3 years ago I'd use revenue instead of profit, since their expenses don't disappear just because the site is down.If Google is walking down the street and stops to pick up a million dollar bill, it actually loses money. Aperocky|3 years ago But do they actually cough up 2 minutes worth of profit because they were down for 2 minutes? xhrpost|3 years ago I think you're looking at revenue. Year end 2021 was $257,637M, divide by 4 = $64.4B per quarter. Net income was $76B or about $19B per quarter.https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings... load replies (1) quickthrower2|3 years ago Expensive for you, but for Google it is nothing. A bug in their Ad placement stack would cost more. load replies (1)
game-of-throws|3 years ago I'd use revenue instead of profit, since their expenses don't disappear just because the site is down.If Google is walking down the street and stops to pick up a million dollar bill, it actually loses money.
Aperocky|3 years ago But do they actually cough up 2 minutes worth of profit because they were down for 2 minutes?
xhrpost|3 years ago I think you're looking at revenue. Year end 2021 was $257,637M, divide by 4 = $64.4B per quarter. Net income was $76B or about $19B per quarter.https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings... load replies (1)
quickthrower2|3 years ago Expensive for you, but for Google it is nothing. A bug in their Ad placement stack would cost more. load replies (1)
russellbeattie|3 years ago
2 minutes is quite the expensive fuckup.
game-of-throws|3 years ago
If Google is walking down the street and stops to pick up a million dollar bill, it actually loses money.
Aperocky|3 years ago
xhrpost|3 years ago
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings...
quickthrower2|3 years ago