I’m sitting here on my brand new aluminum Mac iBook, and Firefox is just slow as an old dog. It is such a divine browser but ever so slow, especially with a jillion tool bars like I have.
I have a few opinions about what should be done if you really want to juice up Firefox. I am not planning to start a chip company anytime soon, so maybe someone over there at Intel or AMD or Apple will read this and make my life a little bit better.
BPU: Browser Processing Unit – Why are these chip makers and computer company need is browser acceleration hardware. They are talking about letting the OS leverage graphics chips, what we need is for this extra computing power to help the browser with its task, in a dedicated SD Ram cache for the environment .
I can even envision a browser card that is specifically designed to accelerate a specific browser (Firefox/gecko or Safari/webkit or IE/Microsoft whatever) sitting next to a video card in a pci-x slot. Then I won’t need an 8 core machine to have a snappy browser experience.
We are announcing plans for a containerized data center in The Netherlands. Although we are still building our beta platform, in anticipation of funding that will allow us to build this facility, we are looking for suitable locations in the Randstad.
This facility will allow us to build our infrastructure in the United States before deploying it abroad. We were hoping to build a facility here in Kansas first, but the new Governor’s plan to embrace big cola (ad dirty old coal at that) that we have been forced to reconsider our plans to keep a large data facility in Kansas.
A recent article from the Huffington Post about a guy who sued Google and won. (not that we would ever think about that….)
In this BBC article Google announces several new search features. Indeed, Google seems to claim credit for inventing semantic search results! I suspect that this is a response to the semantic features in Powerset and Cuil, and also used extensivelty, though not widely deployed, by Baypup.
MIT Technology Review recently did a pre-release test on Wolphram Alpha. This looks like it will be an important addition to the search community and fun to use. A growing number of search options nipping at Google’s heels, but they all have a similar problem: How are you going to make money? Search is cool, but it is AdSense and AdWords that buy Luxos 767s and Victorian library in Geneva.
Some of our servers have been getting memory and os upgrades. Because we dont have much failover built into our system yet, some of the search results have been squirrly. Apologies for any inconvenience. If you like Baypup and want to help us grow, buy some ads or even better, contact jason [at] baypup [dot] com and buy some stock.
