Search in the Cloud… Get a Snack, Take a Nap
March 23, 2009
Very interesting table of content delivery network latency here. There are some surprises in Mudy’s Blog. For example, the two fastest CDNs were Akamai and AOL. Yep, AOL. Amazon, in the middle of the pack, aced Google’s Home Page, Google’s Ajax Library, and Google’s App Engine. No data for Azure, Microsoft’s cloud beta. What’s this mean for search enabled applications? My hunch is that latency will boost snack sales and reduce users’ sleep deficit.
Stephen Arnold, March 25, 2009