Not true. That is only so if search results do not appear until the Internet side of the search is completed. If they appear as soon as they have any results at all, and then update as new results come in, the net effective latency of the Internet side of the search is zero.
This is not rocket science: Chrome's suggestion box already does it.
Posted Sep 27, 2012 4:57 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
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but I can tell you from first hand experience that it is very dsconcerting and annoying to ha the layout and result page of a dash query jump around for 10 secs after the search. heck, if i type in the das, I probably just want to start GIMP and not earn about all possible gimp media out there.