decision-time-universality

A small study to observe the universality in Google search query durations. It is used in this paper: [1511.06444] Universality in halting time and its applications in optimization

This script makes Google search queries of randomly chosen words and records their durations into a file.

Usage

• Edit duration.py to set the number of words.
• Run it via python googledecisionduration.py
• After it finishes you can plot the graph via python duration_plot.py

References

The definition of universality can be seen in this paper: Universality in Numerical Computations with Random Data. Case Studies