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"Caffeine" - Google's new faster search engine
- amichail 17y agoWhy is this newsworthy? Users don't care about changes in implementation that have little effect on rankings and probably very few people would notice the speed difference.
- TallGuyShort 17y agoUsers don't, but I'll bet a lot of hackers do. Apparently it has had an effect on rankings - what you consider to be "little effect" can be huge deal to someone whose business relies heavily on referrals from Google. And the speed difference that I've experienced is actually quite noticeable. edit: To give some concrete data, I took the queries I've done on Google today and compared the first page of results. Roughly 40% of the results were ranked differently than they were before. News results were more recent with Caffeine. Previous requests took perhaps, 1/2 a second to display - it's relatively instantaneous now.
- robryan 17y agoHackers like me would be interested in what they have done even if it made no significant difference to the end results. I think there main go here is trying to position them self against all the new real time search offerings.
- wglb 17y agoI am wondering, however, if the display time is faster now because the new site doesn't have much user load where the old google site is relatively busy. The claim about 'faster' is that newer search results show up sooner than they did on the old google. That is, new results get indexed for display earlier.
- asyazwan 17y agoInterestingly, stack overflow is not popular with Caffeine... "HTTP Requests optimization": 2nd result with old Google. Not in the first 3 pages with Caffeine.
- pvg 17y agoI think a reasonable answer (to a reasonable question, not sure why you're being downvoted to oblivion) to why it's newsworthy is the very fact that Google chose to announce it. Google must have made many changes to both the ranking algorithm and the responsiveness of their system over the years - I don't recall any announcements of them, codename attached (although it's conceivable I missed them somehow). Part of the motivation may be to create some publicity to counter all the Bing/yahoo deal/etc publicity.
- jhy 17y agoFor Google's data centers: faster == cheaper. They need less servers to handle the same amount of load. Even a few % at this scale could be a big saving.
- onreact-com 17y agoI still see the same spam I reported weeks ago in the index. The new index even shows it at #1!
- jpwagner 17y agoWhy is the sentence about Wolfram Alpha in this article?
- keltex 17y agoMy testing: Similar results. Similar speed.
- caffeine 17y agoDoes this mean I have to change my username?
- tlrobinson 17y agoCompare new and old Google Search side-by-side: http://tlrobinson.net/misc/googlecompare.html http://tlrobinson.net/misc/googlecompare.html
- woodsier 17y agoCaffeine is twice as slow...