I repeat it is not accepted at all to prove anything based on the quantity of Google results Why do you claim the opposite Just because It is absolutely obvious that and why a term like kilobyte will generate more search results than kibibyte The former is about  years older than the latter Nobody is going to correct OCR scans or otherwise copied information of  year old books manuals or the like It only matters for newly written text of course  which may very well be about past technology Further nobody deprecated the term kilobyte Many if not most articles mentioning kibibyte will also mention kilobyte These are some of the reasons why Google gaming is nonsense I did not write anything contradictory at all Do you know what kind of mistakes are caused by lack of concentration Just look at your linked mail Thats one example Once and for all it has nothing to do with confusion and the IEC binary prefixes do not cause any confusion at all Also Im not wrong Im human