Honestly, the mentality in this twitter thread is a joke. Google handles insane amounts of data beyond what 99.99% of engineers have ever dealt with. The fact that their search works at all is a miracle. But I guess people like to ignore that and much rather complain on Twitter that it takes a few seconds to query a database of trillions of records.
About 6,060,000,000 results (6.82 seconds)
If, for example, you wanted to harvest domain names because you had a hot 0day on wordpress, this would be a convenient way to do it.
Yes, there are probably other signatures, too.
What do you mean? People are seeing slow queries for "powered by". Unless you think they are lying, I don't see how that isn't factual?
"Come on Google I don't have all day!"
"This is actually one of those crazy "facts from the future" to go back in time and tell people 10 years ago: Google has the dominant browser and mobile operating system, but their search sometimes takes 7 seconds."
"@Google have you tried implementing these recommendations? https://developers.google.com/speed/"
Still, you do you. I'm sure Google appreciates the peanut gallery coming to their defense for even the most trivial of issues...