Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup

Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by wlamond on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @02:14PM (#8724943)

I don't work at Google, but I think they do that to gather click through data for links and positions on the results page. Simply linking to the destination would prevent them from learning valuable information about the quality of their search engine and what users think is valuable.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by lkbm on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @02:18PM (#8724962)

I'm sure they do. They could probably get that data from the vast majority of users using Javascript. I assume a concurrent onclick request wouldn't slow things down noticeably.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by nezza-_- on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @02:59PM (#8725279)

An onclick request wouldn't be concurrent with the loading of the new page.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by dchichkov on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @05:19PM (#8726231)

How about a right click? Google substitutes the link on the right-click as well. Which creates loads of frustration for users wanting to copy say a link to a research paper to an e-mail.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by _lce0 on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @09:54PM (#8727432)

they do click traking on any Google product.. Just try to click in a gmail attachment.. Seriously, Why on earth do the need to track those as well?

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