Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's Net traffic

Credit: GoSquared/ The Register

What does this say about how dependent on Google, the Net has become?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/17/google_outage/ / relax now near unprecedented near-unprecedented outage affect affected Google's services brief time Friday over event began 4:37pm Pacific Time lasted between one and five minutes Google Apps Dashboard services reported back online by 4:48pm incident apparently blacked out every service Mountain View simultaneously Google Search Gmail YouTube Google Drive technical difficulties it goes with the territory web analytics firm GoSquared worldwide Internet traffic dipped stunning 40 per cent graph data centre centers center centers /