Simon Willison’s Weblog

Google Maps and Label Readability. Obsessively detailed analysis of exactly what makes Google Maps so readable when compared to Yahoo! and Bing.

# 5:08 pm / cartography, google-maps, recovered

Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? Fascinating optimisation tricks by some of the big websites, which violate the RFC governing the TCP slow-start algorithm in order to perform better in the common case.

# 7:03 pm / google, microsoft, networking, performance, recovered