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Soon, you will also be able to download pages faster on 2G

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Sonal Desai
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MUMBAI, INDIA: The next time you want to book a ticket on IRCTC, reserve seat at your favorite restaurant or transfer funds to your loved ones, the speed and ease of transactions would surprise you. But only if you have a smart phone with an Android or Chrome browser!!!

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Yes, Google has fixed the pain points of 2G users in India, by optimizing its Web pages for faster downloads. However, video sites, pages that require cookies and websites that are technically challenging to transcode, will remain unconverted.

In a blog post, Hiroto Tokusei, Search Product Manager, Google, wrote, "If you are in India with an Android phone and on a slow connection like 2G, you should start to see pages loading a whole lot faster, while using far less data, via your Chrome or Android browser from Google's search results. Web pages are transformed through transcoding or conversion on the fly.”

According to Google, since there are over 200 million Indians accessing the Internet from a smart phone, even if users spend 1 second a day waiting for a page to load, that adds up to more than two and a half years of people waiting, every day.

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For a start, Google conducted trials of the light Web pages in Indonesia and found that the pages could load four times faster, use 80 percent less data than before and saw more than 50 percent increase in traffic.

The feature gets triggered when a network connection is very, very slow, such as 2G, Google says.

It must be recalled that at its annual developer conference Google I/O 2015 last month, Google said it was going to pilot a new feature on the Chrome Android browser to tackle slow internet speeds in India. The feature would evaluate the quality of the user's mobile Internet connection and moderately change the way the result page appears to the user.

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