Google replaced "similar pages" with "similar".
http://i39.tinypic.com/20k982u.jpg |
Anyone care to estimate how many tens of thousands of dollars bandwidth they save each day, due to that change? |
Would they really save any? |
Why wouldn't they save any? Every page of 10 search results is now 60 bytes shorter. Multiply that by 300 million searches per day, giving a bandwidth saving of ... 18 Gigabytes or roughly $2.70 per day.
OK, OK, the bandwidth saving is much lower than I thought. I thought Google would be serving much more than 300 million searches per day.
"Google Searches Per Day ... 293 Million ... March 2009" http://blog.usaseopros.com/2009/04/15/google-searches-per-day-reaches-293-million-in-march-2009/ |
Their results page HTML is rather optimized but apparently not super optimized. For instance, I'm seeing quite a few links starting with "http: //www.google.com/..." where a "/..." would have sufficed (as I'm already on www.google.com).
In their meta charset definition, is the blank in "text/html; charset=UTF-8" needed? (Why do they send that charset within the HTML anyway, are there browsers out there who don't understand the http header charset?) |
Here's the real reason for this change:
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5582/reviewsite.png |
Philipp, the explicit links and charset might help when a web page is saved to disk and viewed by e.g. Microsoft Word. In that case there's no HTTP header. |
Ionut: Excuse me, but what the link between a shorter link and our perverse universe? ;) |
"Similar pages" has been replaced with "similar" to make room for "review this site" (it's probably still an experiment, right now Google uses an icon). |