The simplest way to mitigate a DDOS is to just have way more resources than your attacker. If you're getting hit with 10Gbps, and your site can handle 100Gbps, you're not going to go down. Google obviously has plenty of capacity.
On top of that there are filtering technologies that can block obviously fake traffic or well-known signatures like the LOIC.
The most sophisticated attacks occur at the application level. A Google service would not be able to help configure your install of Wordpress to resist this. But they could probably serve a static cache of your site. Interactive features like login or search would not work though.
Cloudflare does all of these things and more.
The way I read this, Google would not charge for this service. They would select "worthwhile" sites to protect out of the goodness of their heart.
The cynical take is that it is a PR project to help repair their "defenders of the Internet" brand. They built it up with SOPA, but it's been damaged by PRISM.
The simplest way to mitigate a DDOS is to just have way more resources than your attacker. If you're getting hit with 10Gbps, and your site can handle 100Gbps, you're not going to go down. Google obviously has plenty of capacity.
On top of that there are filtering technologies that can block obviously fake traffic or well-known signatures like the LOIC.
The most sophisticated attacks occur at the application level. A Google service would not be able to help configure your install of Wordpress to resist this. But they could probably serve a static cache of your site. Interactive features like login or search would not work though.
Cloudflare does all of these things and more.
The way I read this, Google would not charge for this service. They would select "worthwhile" sites to protect out of the goodness of their heart.
The cynical take is that it is a PR project to help repair their "defenders of the Internet" brand. They built it up with SOPA, but it's been damaged by PRISM.