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		SquareWheel on Feb 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should Y... Absolutely. Think of the bandwidth cost of a single character. Google.com isn't made to be pretty, nor should it be.

Natsu on Feb 25, 2012 [–]

I wonder how many gigs of transfer one can shave by cutting a single character from the Google homepage?

zobzu on Feb 26, 2012 | [–]

I wonder why they added so much crap to it lately then :P

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