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Wouldn't this be a crazy bandwidth hog? If I typed in multiple search terms, and didn't load any of my results, it would have automatically downloaded everythin
by hardy263 15y ago
Wouldn't this be a crazy bandwidth hog? If I typed in multiple search terms, and didn't load any of my results, it would have automatically downloaded everything for no reason.
- linc01n 15y agoWeb owners need to pay for bandwidth of unvisited visitors(strange words LOL) and I am sure there will be lots of them.
- Joakal 15y agoIt's called a hotlink. Web owners have issues with people hotlinking certain content; typically images, css and js though.
- abraham 15y agoIn Google's own words they only preload the top result if they are confident it is what you are looking for. If they pull it off there will be negligible amount of unused preloaded pages.
- NaOH 15y agoShouldn't the top result inherently represent what Google thinks is what I want? Or is there some secondary "confidence" component to the presumed efficacy of a top result?
- abraham 15y agoAs I understand there is a secondary confidence score. Sometimes there just aren't any good results to show.
- ehsanu1 15y agoPossibly click-through rate, normalized using average click-through rate for the first result.
- stellar678 15y agoI'd presume they could look at the difference between their confidence (relevance?) in the first and second results. If the difference is more than some threshold, bam preload the first.