The “Google instant” wasn’t a ground breaking idea by itself. We have all been using various forms of auto-completes for a while now. What makes it stand out is that unlike all the previous kinds of auto-completes, this one is able to search the entire web archive, at an amazing speed and still be able [...]

From Urs’ talk at the velocity2010 conference [ More info : Google, datacenterknowledge ] Average web page – 320kb, 44 resources, 7 dns lookups, doesn’t compress 3rd of its content Aiming for 100ms page load times for chrome Chrome: HTML5, V8 JS engine, DNS prefetching, VP8 codec, opensource, spurs competition TCP improvements Fast start (higher [...]