gistfile1.rb

#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

require 'net/http'
require 'open-uri'
require 'benchmark'
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'typhoeus'

words = 50.times.map { ('a'..'z').to_a.shuffle.take(rand(4) + 1).join }
res1 = res2 = res3 = nil

puts 'Search words;'
p words
puts

def get_titles(q)
  (Hpricot(open("http://www.google.com/search?q=#{q}").read)/'title').text
end

class Remote; include Typhoeus end

Benchmark.bmbm do |x|
  x.report do
    res1 = words.map {|q| get_titles(q) }
  end

  x.report do
    res2 = words.map {|q| Thread.new { get_titles(q) } }.map(&:value)
  end

  x.report do
    res3 = words.map {|q|
      Remote.get("http://www.google.com/search?q=#{q}")
    }.map {|res|
      (Hpricot(res.body)/'title').text
    }
  end
end

p res1 == res2 && res1 == res3 && res2 == res3