Google Search Now Uses Service Worker For Repeated Searches (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Google Search is now using Service Worker to cache repeated searches, loading results twice as fast. The tidbit was shared this week by Dion Almaer, Google director of engineering, and Ben Galbraith, Google senior director of product, at Pluralsight Live in Salt Lake City, Utah. "Google Search's mission is to get relevant results to you as quickly as possible," Almaer said onstage. "So they invested in the largest deployment of Service Worker probably out there by being able to extra work on the fly and give you results sometimes twice as fast."

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Re: Off topic, but true: anime is bad

[reiterate]

Akira though

Re:Can this be prevented?

[llamalad]

Yes.

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/03...

tl; dr: about:config, disable service workers

Search can be “sometime twice as fast”

[93 Escort Wagon]

I can’t say that I’ve ever thought “these search results loaded too slowly”. I have, on the other hand, said “why doesn’t Google do something about these pages which somehow manage to get highly ranked but don’t actually contain content which answers my question?”

Re:Can this be prevented?

[CanadianMacFan]

From https://developers.google.com/...

"A service worker is a script that your browser runs in the background, separate from a web page"

It's not like a transparent proxy at all. I don't know why they don't just let your browser cache the page of search results instead of replicating the functionality with a script.

And ten times as old

[Ungrounded Lightning]

But only if you've already asked the same thing before.

And only if you don't care for anything that happened since the LAST time you searched.