One background improvement
May 06, 2012
Last week, I mentioned that there are a number of improvements that we've been working on that are not immediately visible to users. One of these background improvements that we're still in the process of rolling out is a faster page load. There are certain landing pages that users will visit from search engine results that now load faster than they did previously. These pages look a lot like the normal search results pages and the acceleration is done by pre-generating the pages (otherwise known as caching). As a result, what is visible in those landing pages will sometimes be out of sync with what is presented in the search results pages. As we finish implementing this feature, however, those landing pages should get automatically re-generated over time and should not differ too much from the search results pages at any given point in time.
And yes, we plan on improving the speed of generating the search results page so that all users can benefit.