Why does traceroute take much longer than ping?

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Published on 2010-02-05T08:40:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 20:43 UTC
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How to explain this?

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert google.com

Tracing route to google.com [64.233.189.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2     7 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  reserve.cableplus.com.cn [218.242.223.209]
  3   108 ms   135 ms   163 ms  211.154.70.10
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     2 ms     *        1 ms  211.154.64.114
  6     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  211.154.72.185
  7     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  202.96.222.77
  8     2 ms     1 ms     2 ms  61.152.81.145
  9     1 ms     2 ms     1 ms  61.152.86.54
 10     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  202.97.33.238
 11     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  202.97.33.54
 12     2 ms     1 ms     2 ms  202.97.33.5
 13    33 ms    33 ms    33 ms  202.97.61.50
 14    34 ms    34 ms    34 ms  202.97.62.214
 15    34 ms   186 ms    37 ms  209.85.241.56
 16    35 ms    35 ms    44 ms  66.249.94.34
 17    34 ms    34 ms    34 ms  hkg01s01-in-f104.1e100.net [64.233.189.104]

Trace complete.

So average time should be :1+7+108+2+1+1+2+1+1+2+2+33+34+34+35+34+34+35+34,which is a lot bigger than ping

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [64.233.189.104] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.233.189.104: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=241
Reply from 64.233.189.104: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=241
Reply from 64.233.189.104: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=241
Reply from 64.233.189.104: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=241

Ping statistics for 64.233.189.104:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 34ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 34ms

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