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images/news/google.jpgA percentage of Google traffic is stripped of identifying information. Why?
Google likes to portray itself as a company that does everything in the open. But it appears that at least some of its employees are harboring a secret.
Web researcher Net Applications recently discovered that between 11% to 30% of traffic streaming out of Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Mountain View, Calif., office is stripped clean of the usual identifying information that accompanies such traffic. That begs the question: What secret is it that Google doesn't want the rest of the Web to know?
The finding, first reported in InternetNews.com, quickly sparked online chatter about a Windows challenger in the works.
The new data showed that a percentage of Internet users in Google's offices are using an operating system that essentially shields itself from detection by stripping traffic of identifying information. About 11% of Google's Web traffic currently shows up like this. The level fluctuates daily, Vizzacarro says. A few days ago it was around 30%
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Google likes to portray itself as a company that does everything in the open. But it appears that at least some of its employees are harboring a secret.
Web researcher Net Applications recently discovered that between 11% to 30% of traffic streaming out of Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Mountain View, Calif., office is stripped clean of the usual identifying information that accompanies such traffic. That begs the question: What secret is it that Google doesn't want the rest of the Web to know?
The finding, first reported in InternetNews.com, quickly sparked online chatter about a Windows challenger in the works.
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"I'd be shocked if Google wasn't developing its own operating system," says Vince Vizzacarro, Net Applications' executive vice president of marketing. "They clearly want to ride online services without using Microsoft."
The new data showed that a percentage of Internet users in Google's offices are using an operating system that essentially shields itself from detection by stripping traffic of identifying information. About 11% of Google's Web traffic currently shows up like this. The level fluctuates daily, Vizzacarro says. A few days ago it was around 30%
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