Why is Google so Fast?

November 11th, 2007 - 9:00AM

It’s no coincidence that the most successful search engine on the planet is also the fastest to return results. Here are some time charts from HttpWatch for Google and its two closest competitors; Yahoo and Live.com: Google.com returns its results page in 0.155 seconds: Live.com returns its results page in 0.619 seconds: Yahoo returns its results page in 1.131 seconds: These screen shots were created by visiting the home page of each search engine with an empty cache and then entering a search term while recording with the free, Basic Edition of HttpWatch After clicking the ‘Search’ button, the results … Continue reading →