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Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly

Posted by Hemos on from the hardly-any-details dept.

johnp. writes "A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line. " A number of people had submitted this over the weekend - there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this, so if you find anything more on it, plz. post below - somehow 1500 lines of code per day, "every media player" built in doesn't ring true for me.

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. I've got your hard data right here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

  3. oh great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, great. Advertisers will be able to stuff more garbage onto web pages. The speed will be unchanged when all the crap is done clogging up the pipeline.

  4. Not necessary by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We could save all the grant funding cash being spent on this project quite simply if we only just limited Google's crawler resources.

    Small sites like Kuro5hin.org get millions of hits every month from search engine page finders, such as the GoogleBot. This uses up an incredible amount of resources and slows the Internet down tremendously. What good is indexing billions of pages if your own software crashes each of their Webservers?

    I propose increasing browsing speed by severely limiting the use of search engine crawlers. Perhaps only between 2:00am-5:00am every morning (EST) would we allow them. Otherwise, we'll continue to be stuck with a Kuro5hin.org site that is barely ever available due to its tremendous Google/PageRank/Link-to rank.

    Oh, and Google's bot doesn't even obey robots.txt files even though it says it does. Try it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.

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    1. Re:Not necessary by orthogonal · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      I propose increasing browsing speed by severely limiting the use of search engine crawlers. Perhaps only between 2:00am-5:00am every morning (EST) would we allow them.

      2:00 am to 5:00 am?? That's when I do most of my browsing!!!!

      Of course, not at Kuro5hin.org...

      I uh, do, uh, anatomy research... and uh, changes in primate mating habits caused by the ubiquity of digital cameras.

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  5. Re:Is that so? by Omkar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I will be the first to eat my cat

    Dude, someone from PETA could be reading this!

  6. argh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's REALLY sad how some people get trolled by crap like this.