Comments on: Why is Google so Fast?

By: Ivo S

Ivo S — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:40:01 +0000

More broken down with some little-known information not found on Wikipedia:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4269448/what-specific-software-algorithms-and-design-patterns-make-googles-queries-so

By: ivo s

ivo s — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:59:46 +0000

I opened up a thread on stackoverflow:
could this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4223398/re-how-can-google-be-so-fast-is-there-a-very-important-detail-missing-on-the-we

also be a factor ?

By: Djane

Djane — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:12:25 +0000

wow… google really pays attention to small details. Hence making a big difference.

By: Httpwatch Blog

Httpwatch Blog — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:45:07 +0000

Yes, Google does some clever things to make its search query fast, but if they didn’t also pay attention to front end issues such as page size, round trips and caching all that effort will be wasted.

Steve Souders (Google’s chief performance engineer) has a ‘Performance Golden Rule’:

“80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end”

See slide #8 of his ‘Higher Performance Websites’ talk:

http://www.slideshare.net/w3guru/high-performance-websites-by-souders-steve-presentation

This blog post acknowledges the power of Google’s distributed super-computer, but then goes on to show what they also did on the front end to ensure that search pages load as fast as possible.