Originally Posted by TheAnimus 
yes because google use mysql. Only they don't.
They use a highly modified version, for only some tasks. So that means it must be the dogs bollocks dosen't it?
No, they write tools to work with the engine, they don't have a 'highly modified version', nor do they need to. And they use it a lot.
Originally Posted by TheAnimus Ticketmaster site is hardly a good example of a well run smooth fast website is it?
Works fine for me, graphics are a tad slow to load, everything else is fine, not that it has anything to do with the database, unless they load all their graphics from database, which they don't. Their site hosts a lot of data, it's another example of why your sweaping statement is false.
Originally Posted by TheAnimus If the best adovacy you can come up with is someones using it? how do you know which is the best, all vendor DBs are used, even column store and datawarehouse packages, that dosen't mean there good.
Nice strawman there, very good. I didn't give arbitrary names of companies that use it, I gave names of big companies with very big data storage needs for their sites.