I just tried, pinging Yahoo is about 20 times slower than pinging Google...

I decided to run a small experiment

ping -c 20 -i 5 google.com; ping -c 20 -i 5 yahoo.com [snip] --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.746/19.939/25.057/3.153 ms [snip] --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.561/20.883/25.080/2.675 ms

They look comparable to me?

	▲	theshackleford 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It would depend on where you are pinging from and if they have anything closer to you to respond. From where I am, google averages 4ms, yahoo is at 200ms+. Obviously because they dont have the money or marketshare to bother putting anything for me to route closer too.
	▲	jedberg 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Same experiment from my gigabit link in Silicon Valley. Looks like Yahoo is about 3 times slower but far more consistent --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 6.918/23.419/294.037/62.272 ms --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 78.056/78.940/80.940/0.811 ms Although what's interesting is that Yahoo is really more like 10 times slower (almost every ping was in the 6-8ms range), it's just that there was just that one packet at 300ms and other at 30ms that really blew out the average.