4 ms·
I've been working on something similar for the last 2 years, so probably longer than Cake. I call it WonderSwipe, currently in beta on iPhones: https://medium.c
by hackergary 9y ago
I've been working on something similar for the last 2 years, so probably longer than Cake. I call it WonderSwipe, currently in beta on iPhones: https://medium.com/wonderswipe/rethink-mobile-search-10-100x-faster-introducing-wonderswipe-6f2ff0d0e667 https://medium.com/wonderswipe/rethink-mobile-search-10-100x...
While we are thinking similar in regards to the stupidity of clicking hit-and-miss links on a list of search results on mobile, fussing with history back and forth in browsers, Cake hasn't gone nearly far enough. Our goal is to not render HTML at all, but summarize text extracted from articles. Full browser views are there only as backup. Only then can we achieve something truly remarkable: 10-100x speedup compared to conventional browsers.
In short, we skip the bloat in dealing with the full HTML DOM and Javascript that's been so abused in ads and articles, which signicantly drain your phone battery and slowdown browsing. And then the summaries reduce your cognitive load in cutting through the noise and getting to an answer, faster.
And in the midst of all the social ails surrounding fake news and filter bubbles, I have plans to address those too. I'm just starting to market WonderSwipe after being in stealth developing it for the last 2 years, so even though it's still in private beta, I'd love your ideas and feedback in terms of what I'm proposing. As web search is like consulting the Oracle in ages past, I believe there's no more important issues to address than truly rethinking mobile search and knowledge transfer.