# Slowpokes to get penalized in Google search rankings? - Host: [venturebeat.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/venturebeat.com/) - Saved: November 14, 2009 (2009-11-14T11:40:50Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4c5c86c39ae5/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4c5c86c39ae5.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) WebProNews dug up a pretty interesting nugget in an interview with Google’s Matt Cutts over the weekend at PubCon — there’s a faction of Googlers who are lobbying for site speed to be a factor in search rankings. That’s not taken into account at the moment, although Google tries to boost the speed of its own services with a religious ferocity. (Consider that even a 100 to 400 millisecond delay can reduce daily searches per user by more than half a percent.) Google pulls in a few hundred different factors in search rankings and pushes changes to the underlying algorithm at least once a day on average. Cutts said: We’re starting to think more and more about — should speed be a factor in Google’s rankings? I mean, in AdWords, if your site is slow, that can be a factor in how much you have to pay in AdWords. Historically we haven’t used it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think the web should be fast. It should be a good experience, so it’s sort of fair to say if you’re a fast site, maybe you should get a bit of a bonus. Or if you’re a really awfully slow site, maybe users don’t want that as much. (Via SearchEngineLand) ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Technorati raises $2M more](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5189dce2c6b1/) (venturebeat.com, October 14, 2009) - [Virtual goods sales to hit $1 billion in 2009 as social games pay off big](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9e322a8dc6f5/) (venturebeat.com, October 15, 2009) - [Hell returns as id Software’s John Carmack builds Doom Classic for the iPhone](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/40e015d58d74/) (venturebeat.com, November 5, 2009) - [Google tries to speed up programming with a new language: Go](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2de927fabe2f/) (venturebeat.com, November 10, 2009) - [Salesforce.com announces Chatter, another social network for companies](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/664c74ae6e14/) (venturebeat.com, November 18, 2009) ## Saved the same week - [App Store Four-Month-Long Wait for a Bug Fix to Be Accepted of the Week: Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0.1](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/00ecff134af2/) (rogueamoeba.com, November 13, 2009) - [News Corp. Digital Chief: We Could Block Google In Months](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f8afde2732e5/) (businessinsider.com, November 13, 2009) - [When URL shorteners fail](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d4a3e75336d4/) (kottke.org, November 13, 2009) - [Dow Jones Reaches Out To McKinsey—Company Says It's Building, Not Cutting](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4f00aa1eb659/) (gigaom.com, November 14, 2009) - [Google Sidewiki: The first 50 days of valuable entries and new API features](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d53d17ba45ba/) (googleblog.blogspot.com, November 15, 2009) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/13/slowpokes-to-get-penalized-in-google-search-rankings/