It is growing faster than Google, and at some point in the not-too-distant future, on current trends, Opera will overtake it. From 2008 to 2009 Opera grew from 21 billion to 36.9 billion.
Google currently handles 85 billion transactions a month. All this reduces the time it takes to load a page, making the browsing experience slicker and less frustrating for users.īut senior Apple employee Chris Espinosa expressed concern about the scale of the data that Amazon will be able to gather:Īt current growth rates, Opera will soon overtake Google as the owner of the largest transaction farm on the web. It can also compress elements such as images down to a size appropriate for the Fire and can store frequently requested pages on its servers. Silk will compile all these into the webpage on its servers, sending the finished thing to the Kindle Fire as a single stream of data.Īmazon has high-bandwidth connections to the internet backbone so it can grab these elements faster than users could.
Every web page is actually a collection of elements, such as text, images, style sheets and JavaScript. The technical benefits of this are fairly obvious. Amazon's Kindle Fire has been dominating the headlines since its launch yesterday, but buried under the massive heap of reviews and opinion pieces was the announcement of Amazon Silk, a new web browser that caches every page requested on Amazon's cloud computing cluster before sending it off to the user.
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