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You may find this hard to believe but, there are places that exist that are not America. We like to call this "The rest of the world". It's nice and there are

You may find this hard to believe but, there are places that exist that are not America. We like to call this "The rest of the world". It's nice and there are many friendly people. Now let's take an example of a place in the rest of the world: Perth, Australia. What's the flight time of a packet from Perth to Mountain View? 300ms -400ms? Taken each way that's almost a second. Hyperbole? not at all. You may now continue living in total oblivion to the world around you. Also you say they've hidden the extra content. The same extra content which was just more ads. You're actually making the contention that google was cleverly hiding all the ads from you? No it wasn't. It was cleverly pushing real results below the fold where they will stop distracting users from the ads. see this: http://www.seobook.com/excuse-me-where-did-googles-organic-search-results-go http://www.seobook.com/excuse-me-where-did-googles-organic-s... This is only heading in one direction - "Pay up for adwords or you're on page two, buddy".

brandon 15y ago
You do know that your Google searches don't go to Mountain View, right? Google has datacenters all over the world. I think you know better, and I'd love to see some actual numbers from you.
- EveryoneElse 15y ago
  http://postimage.org/image/g0hm3z2mj/ http://postimage.org/image/g0hm3z2mj/ 2.7 seconds. need more proof?
- nl 15y ago
  I disagree with most of the OP's points, but... You do realize that Google doesn't have a datacenter in Australia, right? Our searches go to California, so I think the OP's point about the round trip time to Mountain View are reasonable. I'm not in Perth (which - to be fair to Google - is the most isolated city in the world), but from Adelaide my timings look like this: GET http://www.google.com.au/s?hl=en.. http://www.google.com.au/s?hl=en... Waiting: 205ms Receiving: 218ms Total: 423ms Having said that, I usually get results before I can press Enter.
fckin 15y ago
You are free to use a non-American search provider that is more receptive to your friendly non-American needs. I suggest Baidu.

brandon 15y ago

You do know that your Google searches don't go to Mountain View, right? Google has datacenters all over the world. I think you know better, and I'd love to see some actual numbers from you.

EveryoneElse 15y ago
http://postimage.org/image/g0hm3z2mj/ http://postimage.org/image/g0hm3z2mj/ 2.7 seconds. need more proof?
nl 15y ago
I disagree with most of the OP's points, but... You do realize that Google doesn't have a datacenter in Australia, right? Our searches go to California, so I think the OP's point about the round trip time to Mountain View are reasonable. I'm not in Perth (which - to be fair to Google - is the most isolated city in the world), but from Adelaide my timings look like this: GET http://www.google.com.au/s?hl=en.. http://www.google.com.au/s?hl=en... Waiting: 205ms Receiving: 218ms Total: 423ms Having said that, I usually get results before I can press Enter.

fckin 15y ago

You are free to use a non-American search provider that is more receptive to your friendly non-American needs. I suggest Baidu.