Is anybody having slow response times searching on Google?

[TexasTowelie]

It seems that whenever I have done a Web search on Google over the past 2-3 days it has run extremely slow. I've used other search engines like Bing and the response has been excellent.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

[Beachwood]

1. Define "slow"

Three seconds, (which is very slow for me), or thirty seconds or more?

I am having neither, two seconds I consider "slow". Three seconds, I'm obviously having computer or internet problems

Nothing to report on my 30-40 searches today, (well maybe one over 4 seconds).

[TexasTowelie]

2. 30 seconds to a minute.

Usually Google is pretty fast for me also so I'm shocked at the delays. I've done all the technical tricks like clearing cache, cookies and temporary Internet files.

I think that it may have something to do with browser add-ons. I use Firefox normally, but when I opened Internet Explorer and did a Google search it responded promptly.

[Beachwood]

3. Yeah, that's damn slow! By comparison, how do other pages load?

How fast does DU refresh or how fast do you load a new page or DU or somewhere else?

Then, let's go to another search engine.


Google is your preferred search engine. Fine. But for a few moments to experiment, try Bing or Yahoo or something.

Put in the same phrase, or whatever, and let those things search.

I suspect the problem has to do with your ISP and/or DNS services having a problem linking up... but by trying other search engines we can perhaps isolate the problem.

[TexasTowelie]

4. I'm having decent response time in DU

unless I hit a really large thread or something with a ton of photos (SCE's LOLCats are required reading).

It seems like I'm doing well with the other search engines and using IE to search in Google. I've had some other trade-offs in the IE vs. Firefox browser battles so I'm probably going to have to add this one to the list. It does seem to be an intermittent problem because I just did a search and it ran promptly.

My ISP provider is TimeWarner and they were also the provider where I worked at in the same neighborhood. I remember our IT crew griping about TWC frequently so it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to have issues.

[ChromeFoundry]

5. May want to check your DNS configuration

When you click on search results from Google, your are redirected back to Google and then the resulting page redirects you to the actual link. They do this to track clicks. I've seen where changing your DNS servers from your ISP to OpenDNS or GoogleDNS speeds search results links up quite a bit. YMMV.

[PrestonLocke]

8. DNS was my first thought

Another poster mentioned possible outages due to weather. Maybe some DNS servers are down...

OP might want to try hitting google directly at its ip. I would be interested to know the results!

http://74.125.233.41

[madfloridian]

6. Yes.

It is happening to me a lot. I was wondering what was going on. Also I can NOT check my gmail from Firefox since I logged out last week to log in to my other gmail account. I did a search on this and got over a thousand hits...not just my problem. Seems google is acting differently.

I get to pages faster on IE11 so wonder if part of it is google/firefox interaction of some sort?

I know that sounds silly, but I still wonder.

[Denzil_DC]

7. Yeah

It and a few other sites were pretty slow at times the last few days, now back to normnal for me.

I wondered whether it might be weather-related--maybe some outages somewhere.