Accurately interpreting clickthrough data as implicit feedback
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Beyond pilots: keeping rural wireless networks alive
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
WiLdnet: design and implementation of high performancewifi based long distance networks
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Economic analysis of networking technologies for rural developing regions
WINE'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Internet and Network Economics
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Web search and browsing have been streamlined for a comfortable experience when the network connection is fast. Existing systems, however, are not optimized for scenarios where connectivity is poor, as is the case for many users in developing regions where fast connections are expensive, rare, or unavailable. We examined the challenges faced by users behind one of these connections in a previous study, and found that the existing web interface is incapable of providing a good experience when the connection is extremely slow. In this demonstration we present a prototype implementation of a web browsing system that incorporates what we learned. Our system helps the user's search offline as much as possible, and in a single search query when information from the Internet is required.