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It’s really weird. If you add “powered by” to a query it’s really slow, but if you add a minor typo (eg “powere by”) it finds the same results, but faster.



According to https://twitter.com/syndk8/status/1157930276208750593

> Powered by is a footprint that black hats/hackers and spammers use to find targets.

So maybe Google isn't being slow, it's just sleeping intentionally to avoid abuse?


It looks like it is the exact substring that is slow. "asdfpowered byasdf" is slow, too. I bet it's happening at some layer that doesn't even know how to parse the query.




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