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September 24, 2004

A story too good to check?

Posted by Kevin Marks

I was just told the following by Michel Valdrighi in IRC:

from a friend, happened minutes ago:
on MTV Brazil, a poll asking "What's the most annoying thing at the moment?"
The top answer (35%) ended up being "Orkut servers being too slow"

Can anyone confirm this, or is it one of those wild internet rumours?

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1. Lampião Gringão on September 25, 2004 8:18 PM writes...

The rumor going around Brazil is that Google is intentionally serving up pages more slowly to Brazilian IPs in response to the massive influx of same in recent months. Read all about it. I signed on from a Brazilian proxy and it was notably slow. Brazilians are doidos for Orkut, as I have said before, time and time again, getting no readership except Brazilians themselves! Personally, I welcome our new Brazilian overlords. In fact, I may just take to blogging in Portuguese from now on: Better class of bloggers, IMHO.

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