This Indian Googler is Making Internet Ultra-fast

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 16 February 2012, 23:29 IST   |    5 Comments
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Bangalore: Google is now the world’s biggest public Domain Name Server, handling more than 70 billion requests a day.

This is a major milestone in Google’s “Make the web faster” initiative, aimed at making the internet way faster than what it is now.

Arvind Jain, engineering director for Google’s mission told BI, "What we're trying to do is make the Internet fast in general, not just make Google search fast. Our goal is very ambitious. We want the Internet to be instantaneous, so you never have to wait. But that's not a whole lot to ask for. Other forms of media are like that, such as TV channels."

Jain and his team is working on every area which slows down the web pages like browsers, the way web pages are built, protocols governing the data transfers and design of the physical network.

According to Jain, “an average web page takes three to five seconds to load, we are trying to make everything react in 100 milliseconds,” that will be much quicker than blinking speed of an eye.

Google currently has many projects meant to build an instant web. Some of them are:

Google’s fastest browser ever: Chrome

Google is building its first superfast fiber optic network in Kansas City, Kansas.

Google’s new protocol SPDY, an experimental method for internet to communicate faster is going to be considered as a standard by Internet Engineering Task Force.

“Google Page Speed,” a free service by Google, which helps developers in building faster web pages.

“Page Speed Service,” a new free service which help other companies to download and use some technologies which are used by Google.

Urs Holzle, a Google engineer said, “slow internet performance turns people off, for instance 400 millisecond drop in Google's search performance means a drop of 0.44% in traffic, and 80% of people will click away from a video if it stalls while loading,” and this justifies Google and Jain’s attempt in providing a quicker, better web.