McClendon wrote in his blog that last year Google became NORAD's official Santa Tracking technology partner and hosted . "The heavy traffic -- several millions of users -- put Google's infrastructure to the test, but with some heroic work by our system reliability engineers, the Santa Tracker worked continuously," he wrote, adding that they have upgraded their server capacity for this year. "We're hoping this version of the tracker will be the best yet."

Norad has been tracking Santa since 1958 and has been tracking him via the Web since 1998.