For some time, the developers at Google were working at a solution to make their search engine faster. Now you can test the new search architecture called “Caffeine” yourself.
Obviously, they reached their goal of increasing the search speed, but didn’t change the search behavior. When searching for normal terms, you can feel a speed increase of up to 75% in my tests, but when using more complex searches with quotes, there is almost no difference.
You can test the new Caffeine search here: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/
Some speed tests:
| Search term | Old engine | Caffeine | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| multimolti | 0.39 sec | 0.22 sec | 21% |
| install windows 7 on asus eee pc | 1.01 sec | 0.25 sec | 75% |
| “install windows 7 on asus eee pc” | 1.07 sec | 0.84 sec | 21% |
As you can see, when using quotes, the difference is not that big.