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>In fact, it is a herd of ponies, some of which look rather more like full-grown Shires. Nine have more than a billion users globally. Every day people make an estimated 6bn search queries on Google and upload more than 49 years’ worth of video to YouTube. More than 300bn emails are said to be sent every day.

The absolute scale of Alphabet and its services sometimes boggles my mind.

In particular - YouTube where one can't help but ponder about content moderation at this scale being impossible without highly sophisticated algorithms(which also face the heat every once in a while).

parent Fiveplus 6 years ago

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