How big eBay really is

[So how big is eBay?](http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/31470.html)

_The biggest day in 2002 saw 626 million page views, 79 million searches, and 7.7 million bids. As Whitman evangelised: “At peak periods, eBay’s technology infrastructure handles 4.5 gigabits a second of dynamic, real-time data — the equivalent of transmitting all the information in the Library of Congress every six hours.” No matter what way you look at it, that is impressive._