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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by magicalist on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:21PM (#8726794)
That's fine but not especially relevant to the GP's point. The Google redirect and <a ping> don't require JavaScript.
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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by ksk on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:28PM (#8726827)
Ah okay, I didn't know that. I thought that Google returned direct links when you disabled JS.
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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by magicalist on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:56PM (#8726970)
Yeah, it appears that they both add and remove the direct links in JS, so with JS disabled you never see the direct link (at least, that's what I get when I disable javascript).
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