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How long until Google just allows to host the results on their website - the destination opens instantly (preloaded while you gaze thru the results).

I mean it's not great for net neutrality standpoint, but it's a next logical step for them.

Well, they do have snippets from Wikipedia and the like. Bing (I believe) had the magnifying glass tool that would show you a thumbnail of the result on hover. Google came out with something similar for a bit--you'd click a result and it would pull up a thumbnail(?) to the right. That may still be a thing, actually.

That seems to be where Google is going with HTTP2. That multiplexed pipe approach only works well if everything comes from the same site.

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