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tldr; querying the term "powered by" causes the query to take an inordinate amount of time (still less than 10 seconds, so a far cry from "all day"). The reaso
by stareatgoats 7y ago
tldr; querying the term "powered by" causes the query to take an inordinate amount of time (still less than 10 seconds, so a far cry from "all day").
The reason doesn't seem clear, but one comment [0] claims that "powered by" is a common query used by black hats and spammers to find targets. Not sure why any "antispam" behind the scenes would cause the query to delay though. Hardcoded delays?
[0] https://twitter.com/syndk8/status/1157930276208750593 https://twitter.com/syndk8/status/1157930276208750593
- justaguy500 7y agoThe delays are probably to prevent mass scraping all the 6 350 000 000 results?
- stareatgoats 7y agoFinally found a comment that makes sense actually [0]: "Powered by X" is on millions of web pages because it gets autogen'd by popular web-facing CMS (Joomla, Wordpress etc). So when a search query includes "Powered by" google must determine which among the billion pages with this phrase is most relevant" [0] https://twitter.com/bradcog/status/1158008651619004417 https://twitter.com/bradcog/status/1158008651619004417