Google Tries To Make The Internet Faster With SPDY

[Osiris]

Google Tries To Make The Internet Faster With SPDY

Why is the Internet so dang slow. That's probably a phrase that every Internet user in the world has said more than once. Even users with fast broadband connections experience slow downs and slow loading websites every now and then as the speed to display a website in the user's web browser does not only depend on the download speed of the Internet connection. Other factors, including the website that is accessed, the web server the website is hosted, the location of the server in the world and the web browser and system of the user play a role.

 

[office politics]

Google Could Double Web Speeds With SPDY Protocol

So Google is developing a new protocol, dubbed SPDY (pronounced speedy). SPDY is designed, from the ground up, to handle modern Web apps that transfer several smaller files. Without getting too technical, SPDY is able to handle multiple streams of data at once and prioritize on the fly. This means that if the background image of a site takes a long time to load, it doesn't stall the rest of the content from being fed to the browser. SPDY also compresses request and response data (which asks for specific content and tells a browser what to display) so that multiple requests can be sent at once using less bandwidth. In simple terms this means much faster Web applications and more responsive sites.

Of course, there are problems. Sites will have to switch to this new protocol from HTTP -- not an easy task -- and browsers will have to support it. Until that happens, no Web sites will be jumping in and risk alienating non-Chrome-using customers.

 

[Peter.Cort]

That'd be pretty cool. They could just do Indexing for the internet