New type of article storage system - Google?

A colleague drew my attention to this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/technology/google-twitter-and-publishers-seek-faster-web.html?_r=0 <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/technology/google-twitter-and-publishers-seek-faster-web.html?_r=0>

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SAN FRANCISCO — In a world where many people read everything on mobile
phones, a few seconds of load time can mean the gain or loss of millions
of readers and advertising dollars.

Now Google wants to help publishers — and itself — by speeding things up.

Google is working with the social media service Twitter and major news
publishers like The Guardian and The New York Times to create a new kind
of web link and article storage system that would load online news
articles and digital magazine pieces in a few milliseconds, according to
several people involved in the project. That is a fraction of the five
to 10 seconds it can take to load a typical website.
...
]]

Does anybody know more about this? Is it something that we should keep an eye on, that we should know more about?

Thanks

Ivan


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Ivan Herman, W3C
Digital Publishing Lead
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