The one-hour vacation of Google Blog

What happens when one of your main communication vehicles to the world gets cut off? You rely on your fans to bring it back up. It would have been disastrous for Google if a hacker had taken hold of the name and held it ransom…for oh, say $2 million USD? That wouldn’t make much of a dent in Google’s pockets, would it? (It’s total revenue for 2005 was $6 billion!)

Lesson to be learnt: don’t put all your eggs in one basket. And make sure you have solid fans.

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Google zaps official blog by mistake
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