Users strongly prioritize speed and latency over seeing more search results
Marissa Mayer · Small changes with big impact (with Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd) | Masters of Scale · Oct 27, 2023 · at 25:02
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Former Google executive Marissa Mayer explains why early Google users preferred fewer search results per page due to page speed.
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“Latency and time matters a lot more to people than they can usually articulate. Part of it was that people just didn't want to wait that extra split second, and one of the big advantages of Google is it just was that fast, but waiting longer for more results was just something people generally didn't want to do, especially given that the first-time results were generally good enough.”
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