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joyannj joyannj
 
M$3.30 August 11, 2009 02:40 PM

Have you tried Google's "caffeine" yet?

Google's new upgrade (boost of "caffeine" ) is said to speed up search results and provide more accurate results. Have you tried it yet? What do you think?

Here is the link if you want to give it a test drive:
http://www2.sandbox.google.com/
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easyeboy easyeboy
 
 August 12, 2009 02:15 AM
I really like it, it's definitely super fast searching, the way Google founders envisioned this search engine to be. I think that search without pictures is great, but I love the pictures, so I miss typing in Mickey Mouse and getting a result showing a picture of Mickey.

I would like to call it a lightning bolt search engine, but I've seen other search engines that are just as quick, such as DuckDuckGo that is built with Perl and Cuil is also pretty fast as it works on another technology as well.

Do I really notice or care for the difference?

I would say it's insignificant when you're on a high speed Internet connection. For instance, my search for Mickey Mouse was (0.09 seconds) on Cafeine and (0.18 seconds) on regular Google. Does it make a difference, not really, yet it definitely felt like a lightning bolt faster.

Since they said it was faster, I think we psychologically feel that it's faster, just because they say it's faster.


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mrcal mrcal
 
August 11, 2009 03:22 PM
I tried a few searches this morning. Somehow this feels like a physchological experiment:

Can I really notice the difference between search results that appear in 0.22 seconds versus 0.40 seconds? Probably not.

Did it feel faster? Actually, yes.

Was I influenced by the fact that the press release SAID it was faster? Probably.

In all of my searches, Caffeine searched more results (by about 5%) and did provide slightly different results (though the top result was always the same). In most cases the results were faster, but in one case, it actually took longer.

What will I do with the extra 1-5 seconds a day I am going to have when this is released?

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psynopsis psynopsis
 
August 11, 2009 04:48 PM
It's somewhat faster. I receive my search results in 0.12 seconds compared to the regular Google of 0.25 seconds. It's a little more than double the speed.

The thing is, this new Google is also supposed five you more relevant results and more of a live search. It's a pretty good comeback for Google after Bing is slowly taking it down.

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n4thanl n4thanl
 
August 11, 2009 09:48 PM
Despite slightly zippier performance, it still feels like Google to me. Same sort of results and all.

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skyvan skyvan
 
August 11, 2009 11:06 PM
I just tried it and I love it. I am finally number one for the search term "Andrew Fielding". It's my twitter account and not my website but that's still way better than being relegated to the second page.

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gotspeed gotspeed
 
August 12, 2009 04:19 AM
the results seem a lot better. googled my name and the entire page was all my stuff from face book to twitter a web site i have and a old classmates page for me. and was .05 seconds faster. normal google was .16 caffeine was .11
im on a o/c i7 @3.2 ghz so it would seem that the speed increase on googles side is only .04-.05 but if you think about hte number of searches they do a day it will save them tons of time and make them able to use the cpu power for other stuff.

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August 13, 2009 09:14 AM
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