The Google Gospel of Speed
"Speed isn’t just a feature, it’s the feature." So says Urs Hoelzle, head of our infrastructure team. Urs shares how milliseconds mega-matter for everything from search to Chrome, and how we’re quickly moving the world toward an instant Internet.
Read more about our obsession with speed in Think Quarterly
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