Googlenet traffic now 6% of interwebs

Google now handles more interwebs traffic than all but one of the world's ISPs, after gaining more than one per cent of the net's total traffic over the past nine months, according to data from network-security outfit Arbor Networks.

In a blog post, Arbor chief scientist Craig Labovitz dubbed this a record traffic gain. "In their earnings call last week, Google announced a record 2010 third-quarter revenue of $7.29 billion," he said. "This month, Google broke an equally impressive Internet traffic record — gaining more than 1% of all Internet traffic share since January. If Google were an ISP, as of this month it would rank as the second largest carrier on the planet."

Labovitz did not name the largest tier-one ISP. And when we've asked him to divulge such information in the past, he has declined, citing "commercial reasons."

Of course, Google is a bit different from a tier-one ISP. ISPs handle traffic from myriad sources — including Google. The Googlenet handles only Google traffic.

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