[divyekapoor]

Google serves up way way more than 63k queries per second (several million requests/s is common for the critical services around search). Source: I worked there.

However, your main point is valid (180 million/s seems way too high). I've started a thread internally to double check these numbers. Please wait for an update.

[ddorian43]

It's 180M/s memcached requests. A single page view probably hits 10s of requests. Just like a google search may hit 1K+ servers

[mandeepj]

> Google serves up way way more than 63k queries per second (several million requests/s is common for the critical services around search). Source: I worked there.

All right. But, here's my source - https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+requests+does+googl... . Maybe, it's flawed