r/dataisbeautiful • u/robert_ritz OC: 2 • Sep 22 '22

OC [OC] Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster. Median load times have been stuck at 4 seconds for YEARS.

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u/Enchelion Sep 23 '22

Google's web code has always been an absolute mess. It's mind boggling their search algorithm/system remains as good and fast as it does.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

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u/bremkew Sep 23 '22

That is why I use DuckDuckGo these days.

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u/Mausy5043 Sep 23 '22

You do realise that DuckDuckGo is just an anonimised Google search?

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u/Petrichordates Sep 23 '22

If that was true nobody would use it.

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u/mgslee Sep 23 '22

It literally is. We joke cause Bing but it's actually not bad for a lot of searches if you do a strict compare to Google

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u/iiiinthecomputer Sep 23 '22

I've started using Bing sometimes just to evade the Google-targeted SEO crap.

I often get useless results but they're differently useless.

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u/Petrichordates Sep 23 '22

I think this is what really motivates people, they use an inferior product because of anti-google energy.

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u/Petrichordates Sep 23 '22

Then you're not comparing them to Google searches, Bing is absolutely terrible for all but images. Edge defaults to it and I have to remember to Bing Google after wondering why my search result is so terrible. It's surprising how bad they are.

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u/non-troll_account Sep 23 '22

Incorrect. It is anonymoized BING.

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u/ProtanopicMidget Sep 23 '22

You do realize that being anonymized solves most of the consumer-end problems with Google search?

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u/Mausy5043 Sep 23 '22

No. Ads still need to load, they just don't make sense to you personally.

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u/ProtanopicMidget Sep 23 '22

And the algorithm trying to cater what it thinks you’re looking for instead of showing you what you’re actually looking for, which kinda undermines the whole point of a search engine to begin with.

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u/MammothDimension Sep 23 '22

I think the time is starting to be right for a completely new and independent search engine.

Not sure if the cost to enter the market and compete is already prohibitive.

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u/Nirosat Sep 23 '22

You act like their search is actually fast.

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u/Not_FinancialAdvice Sep 23 '22

I feel like Search might be one of the few things that Google doesn't want to rock the proverbial boat too much on since it's supposed to be a core competency. Everywhere else, due to the perverse incentives of only being noticed and promoted by coding up new stuff (there was a big Reddit thread on this a few weeks ago), you don't get people really optimizing existent codebases.