This is what wowd (http://www.wowd.com/ http://www.wowd.com/ [no longer relevant]) tried to do for realtime search before they had to pivot. Current browsers wi

This is what wowd (http://www.wowd.com/ http://www.wowd.com/ [no longer relevant]) tried to do for realtime search before they had to pivot. Current browsers with ECMAScript as the only API are simply too insular, too limited and too slow for any useful distributed computing to ever be genuinely feasible. It would be nice if the browser was a stronger vm specifically suited for executing untrusted objects, yet still with a more traditional os api, filesystem access, and real network interface. But the web still sucks for now.