You do realize that Google doesn't have a datacenter in Australia, right?
Our searches go to California, so I think the OP's point about the round trip time to Mountain View are reasonable.
I'm not in Perth (which - to be fair to Google - is the most isolated city in the world), but from Adelaide my timings look like this:
GET http://www.google.com.au/s?hl=en...
Waiting: 205ms
Receiving: 218ms
Total: 423ms
Having said that, I usually get results before I can press Enter.
You do realize that Google doesn't have a datacenter in Australia, right?
Our searches go to California, so I think the OP's point about the round trip time to Mountain View are reasonable.
I'm not in Perth (which - to be fair to Google - is the most isolated city in the world), but from Adelaide my timings look like this:
GET http://www.google.com.au/s?hl=en...
Waiting: 205ms
Receiving: 218ms
Total: 423ms
Having said that, I usually get results before I can press Enter.