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2.64 seconds for me (i guess it's cached now?). Honestly, the mentality in this twitter thread is a joke. Google handles insane amounts of data beyond what 99.

2.64 seconds for me (i guess it's cached now?). Honestly, the mentality in this twitter thread is a joke. Google handles insane amounts of data beyond what 99.99% of engineers have ever dealt with. The fact that their search works at all is a miracle. But I guess people like to ignore that and much rather complain on Twitter that it takes a few seconds to query a database of trillions of records.

calcifer 7y ago
Well, thankfully you were here to defend one of the largest corporations on the planet from these Twitter meanies who dare discuss a slow responding page.
- xurukefi 7y ago
  I don't see any factual objective discussion in the twitter thread. Btw, I'm not a big fan of Google, which I guess is what you were implying. In fact, I think Google is the most dangerous tech company currently in existence and I consider it a severe threat to our society. But that doesn't mean I cannot objectively judge the technical quality of their products and put things into perspective.
  - calcifer 7y ago
    > I don't see any factual objective discussion in the twitter thread. What do you mean? People are seeing slow queries for "powered by". Unless you think they are lying, I don't see how that isn't factual?
    - xurukefi 7y ago
      It's not what you say, but how you say it. This is just mindless disproportional bashing. "Come on Google I don't have all day!" "This is actually one of those crazy "facts from the future" to go back in time and tell people 10 years ago: Google has the dominant browser and mobile operating system, but their search sometimes takes 7 seconds." "@Google have you tried implementing these recommendations? https://developers.google.com/speed/" https://developers.google.com/speed/"
      - calcifer 7y ago
        Just seems like perfectly normal snarky banter making fun of a faceless corporation. Still, you do you. I'm sure Google appreciates the peanut gallery coming to their defense for even the most trivial of issues...
        Gigablah 7y ago
        I, for one, support the effort to raise the signal-to-noise ratio.
      - robbrown451 7y ago
        Doesn't seem like bashing to me. It is simply interesting.
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Liron 7y ago
Google is famous for raising the bar on speed and yeah, their performance is usually impeccable. That’s why the existence of a consistently slow Google search is newsworthy.
ehsankia 7y ago
It very clearly has to be a bug. I also got ~2.5s. It makes no sense for it to take that long for everyone, even after running it multiple times in a row. The system most definitely has many types of caching, so if it takes that long, there's probably something going very wrong.
- ekc 7y ago
  For me: About 6,060,000,000 results (6.82 seconds)
- ibejoeb 7y ago
  There are comments on the thread that suggest that it is an intentional delay to prevent Google itself from being weaponized. Essentially, "powered by" is special because of automatic inclusions like "powered by wordpress" or "powered by nginx."
  - ehsankia 7y ago
    How can it be weaponized? Can you not search any other keyword used by those platforms? "by wordpress" is pretty fast.
    - ibejoeb 7y ago
      I'm just pointing out the hypothesis and the train of thought. I don't know the real answer here. It's not my hypothesis. If, for example, you wanted to harvest domain names because you had a hot 0day on wordpress, this would be a convenient way to do it. Yes, there are probably other signatures, too.

calcifer 7y ago

Well, thankfully you were here to defend one of the largest corporations on the planet from these Twitter meanies who dare discuss a slow responding page.

xurukefi 7y ago
I don't see any factual objective discussion in the twitter thread. Btw, I'm not a big fan of Google, which I guess is what you were implying. In fact, I think Google is the most dangerous tech company currently in existence and I consider it a severe threat to our society. But that doesn't mean I cannot objectively judge the technical quality of their products and put things into perspective.
- calcifer 7y ago
  > I don't see any factual objective discussion in the twitter thread. What do you mean? People are seeing slow queries for "powered by". Unless you think they are lying, I don't see how that isn't factual?
  - xurukefi 7y ago
    It's not what you say, but how you say it. This is just mindless disproportional bashing. "Come on Google I don't have all day!" "This is actually one of those crazy "facts from the future" to go back in time and tell people 10 years ago: Google has the dominant browser and mobile operating system, but their search sometimes takes 7 seconds." "@Google have you tried implementing these recommendations? https://developers.google.com/speed/" https://developers.google.com/speed/"
    - calcifer 7y ago
      Just seems like perfectly normal snarky banter making fun of a faceless corporation. Still, you do you. I'm sure Google appreciates the peanut gallery coming to their defense for even the most trivial of issues...
      - Gigablah 7y ago
        I, for one, support the effort to raise the signal-to-noise ratio.
    - robbrown451 7y ago
      Doesn't seem like bashing to me. It is simply interesting.
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Liron 7y ago

Google is famous for raising the bar on speed and yeah, their performance is usually impeccable. That’s why the existence of a consistently slow Google search is newsworthy.

ehsankia 7y ago

It very clearly has to be a bug. I also got ~2.5s. It makes no sense for it to take that long for everyone, even after running it multiple times in a row. The system most definitely has many types of caching, so if it takes that long, there's probably something going very wrong.

ekc 7y ago
For me: About 6,060,000,000 results (6.82 seconds)
ibejoeb 7y ago
There are comments on the thread that suggest that it is an intentional delay to prevent Google itself from being weaponized. Essentially, "powered by" is special because of automatic inclusions like "powered by wordpress" or "powered by nginx."
- ehsankia 7y ago
  How can it be weaponized? Can you not search any other keyword used by those platforms? "by wordpress" is pretty fast.
  - ibejoeb 7y ago
    I'm just pointing out the hypothesis and the train of thought. I don't know the real answer here. It's not my hypothesis. If, for example, you wanted to harvest domain names because you had a hot 0day on wordpress, this would be a convenient way to do it. Yes, there are probably other signatures, too.