Why is Orbitz so Slow?

Posted on January 15, 2007

If Google can give me 16,700,000 hits for the word ‘peanuts‘ in 0.04 seconds, why does Orbitz take over 35 seconds to respond to a search for flights from Boston to Hanover? Has Net Neutrality been abolished and Google has paid up but Orbitz is a Scrooge? Are Google’s Engineers really 875 times smarter than Orbitz’s? Does Orbitz really just pay the underclass to input my search string manually into every airline’s website and then spit it into a spreadsheet for my viewing pleasure? Is the concept of Airline cost comparisons really beyond the scope of O(n^3) running time? I wonder.

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