Wow! I had forgot about the "interest" bar under the ads! Nice flashback |
The difference in the number of results is interesting to note:
2001: ~4,700,000 results Now: ~40,500,000 results
That's about 8.6 times more!
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But now the search takes 0.12 seconds or thereabouts, compared to 0.06 seconds in the screenshot.
Of course there are lots of random and non-random things which affect the query time, but maybe the integration of news results, videos, related searches etc adds to the processing time. |
Actually, Roger, when I tried this a few times, I got widely varying times, from 0.07 to 0.22, so I didn't think it was conclusive enough to post. |