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If the respect was for the receiving device or connection speed, the metric used to determine priority of results would be size of payload / speed of delivery,

• afiori 7y ago
  As far as I recall they fixed that, now the problem is that they the measure for speed they use does some weird tricks around partial loads; as long as you display _something_ soon they are happy and the fact that a page might be useless for many seconds is weighted less
  • shadowgovt 7y ago
    That matches with human psychology of perception, IIUC.
    • afiori 7y ago
      Yes, I understand why they would want to do it. But it also mean that I am staring at a unusable page...
      • shadowgovt 7y ago
        But the alternative is you'd be staring at a useragent-provided crawler for N seconds to get to a usable page, right?