How to make the internet faster... no, really!

Ok, so the advertisements for internet programs designed to "make the internet faster" have been around for years, and sort of died in lieu of broadband speeds. But Google has an answer to the problem too.

Google has released a series of instructions designed to help web developers code their websites in a way that utilizes modern compression and rendering technologies.

"The belief is that human beings around the 100th millisecond, the 10th-of-a-second range, can start to perceive change in time" said Bill Coughran, senior vice president for engineering at Google. The idea is that every small improvement added up can make a large difference to the end user if everyone participates in making their web development as optimized as possible.

The guidelines are available at http://code.google.com/speed/articles/