Speeding up the rate at which websites load usually involves switching to a different browser, but the clever folks at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard University have discovered a way to speed up Web browsing regardless of platform. The result of a collaborative study between the two institutions, Polaris, was detailed in a paper published Wednesday. The improvements are dramatic: in tests by researchers involving “a range” of network conditions on more than 200 websites including ESPN.com, NYTimes.com, and Weather.com, Polaris was observed to reduce website page-load times by up to 34 percent.
So, now we can download more crap a little faster. Big deal. What we really need is a way to wade through the all that predominance of garbage and get to the good stuff. An intelligent avatar that you could train to surf, analyze, and bookmark if it meets your selective criteria, would be the information holy grail for me. This is doable, but would require some brilliant programming. Google Alerts is really the progenitor of this idea, but is limited in its filtering ability, being only keyword based. To read more, click here.
Speeding up the rate at which websites load usually involves switching to a different browser, but the clever folks at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard University have discovered a way to speed up Web browsing regardless of platform. The result of a collaborative study between the two institutions, Polaris, was detailed in a paper published Wednesday. The improvements are dramatic: in tests by researchers involving “a range” of network conditions on more than 200 websites including ESPN.com, NYTimes.com, and Weather.com, Polaris was observed to reduce website page-load times by up to 34 percent.