Google runs 13 percent of all active Web sites

New survey data from research firm Netcraft revealed that search giant Google now runs 13 percent of all active Web sites. This was determined based on the number of sites powered by the Google Web Server (GWS), which comes in at just below 11 million sites. To be clear, this includes its Blogger properties, Google Docs, and Google App Engine sites.

So what is the GWS based on? No one knows precisely, though available clues point toward it being a web server customized from the ground up and built on top of Linux, which is heavily modified itself. In a separate report, Google has been identified as accounting for 6 percent of all Internet traffic. You can find Netcraft's January 2010 Web Server Survey here.

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- here's The Register article

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