system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do search engines tell you how long the search took?
gpt
Honestly, they're kind of bragging to show you how good/fast/awesome they are. There is no other reason; it might be interesting to a very small segment of the population, but it's more about people going "Wow, 20 billion results in 0.02 seconds!"