Google Web Accelerator
 

http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html
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Update: :eek:
Just installed - this is quick!

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Well I've just put it on, we shall see :)

Thanks.

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Same here :)

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

OMG, Google is taking over the world.
How long before the Google OS?

Has Google been taking over the internet & slowing down the web pages before releasing this, which will put a nice little advert in the corner (or something) ??

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Quite probably, they're looking like being the new Microsoft. Again, although they have excellent products and services, dominination by one company/way of doing things is always going to be a bad thing. Basically, this means that all your page requests are going to be run through Google, I can imagine the field day that all the marketing execs are going to have with all that usage data.

Can anyone suggest another search engine? (or perhaps I should start my own server farm :D)

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

I'm not keen on this, it's used up nearly 60 meg of space for it's cache and I've only been to a couple of site, obviously if I clear it's cache then I won't be saving any time at all. </uninstall>

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Broadband is fast enough in my eyes, Id prefer to keep my browsing habbits to myself rather than let some company know my surfing habbits...

Tear up your tesco clubcard and do not install google web accelerator, life will be so much nicer..

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Like Ntl you mean?

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

I just noticed from using this in work that it's much faster if you have a faster than 1MB connection.
At home I was getting 1-3 seconds saved and at work I'm seeing 9 seconds.

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Ahh, a proxy offering compression...

Where have I seen that idea before? Ahh yes..

Opera's Mobile Accelerator (which has been operating on a subscription model for nearly a year)..

Admittedly, the Google one is free, and probably good, but it's certainly not a new idea.

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Ah the small print --- from google's privacy policy.

The problem is that this information, when correlated with information from web sites you're using such as user names, passwords, etc. (all of which would be routed through their proxy and caches except for https information which goes through the proxy but not the caches), can tell them, or anyone else who has access, exactly who you are, where you surf and what you do.

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Seems consistent with the way Google likes to make its money - by helping advertisers to target their messages more effectively. What's the betting this accellerator eventually starts feeding 'relevant commercial messages' into the web pages you view ...

I have no objection to the ads in their search results, heck I don't even mind them stringing ads down the side of my gmail messages, but I don't want them compiling a dossier on me, or potentially altering third-party information I wish to view on line, in pursuit of their profits.

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Hmm, would my profle have a tick mark next to "Surfs porn a lot" ??? :D :D

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

Only if you surf p0rn a lot ... ;) :D

Actually I'd be more worried if you started finding a string of Google ads down the right of your browser window offering you Swedish pen1s enlargers and the like. :erm:

Re: Google Web Accelerator
 

The only ads I seem to see from google are ads from eBay offering to sell me dodgy NTL boxes..

Wouldn't it be funny if I looked at the NTL home page, and Web Accelerator had placed these ads within the page?