... half a second? The query is going from a wireless computer, to a $100 router to a comcast router thru 10 year old cable just to hit the telephone pole in my street. That would have to be a 1.2 second, before I could get out of my neihborhood? Not to mention counting to 12 million hits? I know servers are fast but that fast? Magic?
How can a Google search on man take a half of a second and tell me I have 12 million hits in...
- Posted:
- 3+ months ago by guy77mone...
- Topics:
- computer, search, google, computers
Details:
Added 3+ months ago:
How can a google search on man take a half of a second and tell me I have 12 million hits in 1/2 a second? The query is going from a wireless computer, to a $100 router to a comcast router thru 10 year old cable just to hit thE telephone pole in my street. That would have to be a 1.2 second, before I could get out of my neihborhood? Not to mention counting to 12 million hits? I know servers are fast but that fast? Magic?
Answers (1)
First, that 1/2 second is the time a google server waited for a dozen or so other google servers to process your request. Google servers are not fast, they are very fast. And most of the searching is done while the servers are idle, so they only have to look up what is already in their files. That is why it says "about" 12 million.
Second, the internet is a lot faster than you think it is. If you had a fast enough modem you could download an entire movie in about five seconds. Google "internet speed test" to see how fast your connection really is. You will get three numbers: upload, download, and ping. Upload is the speed of files sent by your computer and it is a lot slower than download, which is the speed of files received. Ping is the time to get from your computer to the test server.
They call it "ping" because that is the name of a DOS command. If you know how to do a DOS command you can ping any site to see what you see.