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Imagine if latency was one of the signals Google used to determine ranking. Now imagine that Googlebot gets a ping of half for an application that uses Google A
by minot 12y ago
Imagine if latency was one of the signals Google used to determine ranking. Now imagine that Googlebot gets a ping of half for an application that uses Google App Engine as opposed to someone who uses a raspberry pie at home. Would you say that the makers and users of Raspberry pie now have grounds to sue Google for ranking them lower?
- walterbell 12y agoWhat about geographic latency? Could user or regional preferences be an input into ranking?
- x0x0 12y agoBecause lots of the internet is being served off raspberry pis located in peoples' living rooms? Don't be deliberately obtuse.
- jfoster 12y agoRaspberry Pi was a poor example for him to use, but App Engine (or any Google Cloud solution) was a good example. The Google-hosted sites (including the properties Google owns & operates) will always seem to have lower latency to Google versus everything from AWS down to a Raspberry Pi in a basement. Should that be considered an unfair impartiality in Google's algorithm?
- x0x0 12y agoLower latency to google should have no bearing on serps. Lower latency to the user should. If, ceteris paribus, google sites are lower ranked then yes, that should be illegal. ie consider regression and compute I[google] + site_speed; after controlling for site speed, being a google owned property shouldn't matter. It's fine if google owned sites tend to be faster and hence are more lowly ranked. I specifically meant more along the lines of google can view your navigation through GA tooled sites, and there is a wealth of information that can be derived from that.