YouTube Tells You How Much Your Internet Sucks [Google]

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http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_speedgoogle.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/speedgoogle.jpg)Step 1: Announce a ridiculously fast gigabit fiber internet service (http://gizmodo.com/5468670/google-wants-to-test-gigabit-fiber-internet-for-up-to-500000-people). Step 2: Show everybody how much their internet sucks with the new YouTube speed dashboard (http://www.youtube.com/my_speed).
Unlike most speedtests, it aggregates and shows your video download speed over time, and compares it to other people on the city, state, national and global level, so you can see how your broadband stacks up—and when it doesn't.
It doesn't? *RabbleRabbleRabbleRabbleRabble* [YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/my_speed), Google (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174122) via TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/youtubes-video-speed-dashboard-could-gives-users-a-thirst-for-speed/)]


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