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| Google launch Web Accelerator tool |
| Friday, May 06, 2005 at 18:21 by Laurence Norah |
Google have launched a new tool which is designed to increase the speed of a users broadband connection. Called the Google Web Accelerator, the idea is that by using the power of Google's global computer network pages can be made to load faster on a users machine.
The Google Web Accelerator works in a variety of ways in order to increase the speed of a users broadband connection. These include:
• Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
• Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
• Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
• Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
• Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
• Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
The Google Web Accelerator does not speed up HTTPS pages, and Google also take pains to point out that it only speeds up web browsing, and not file downloads or media streams.
Of course, this speed up comes with the usual Google privacy caveat. If you use the Google Web Accelerator then all of your web browsing requests go to Google, which means that they know all of your web browsing habits. Of course, it could be argued that your ISP already knows all of your web browsing habits, as does all the spyware and malware that is possibly installed on your machine already, so this Google issue is not really a big deal.
The Google Web Accelerator also does very little for dial-up connections, unlike most other web accelerators out there. It is currently available in beta form (no surprise there then) for both Internet Explorer and Firefox, although other browsers can be used with a little proxy tweaking.
If you're happy with Google knowing your web browsing habits, which to be honest they probably do anyway, then you may want to give this a shot. If you find it to be useful, let us know in our comments section below.
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| if your page loading on broadband is slow, surely it's an ISP problem. This isn't a product it's a marketing scam. |
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| Marketing scam... No!
Even with todays broadband speeds, Its still faster to load data off a faster server / your computer that it will be off a server with a lot of load on it , I think this is another Great FREE product from Google.
Let the Google World domination begin |
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| Web accelerators are not new. If your broadband provider already implements this via a L4-7 application switch or behind the router, then Google product offers zero add-on. Ditto for the server of the web site one is visiting. Bottom line is that if one is satisfied with the speed of page loading of the sites one visits, then don't try to fix it: There is no such thing as a FREE lunch. |
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| re: #2 most sites are dynamic these days, so it's NOT quicker to let google get the page for you first. A well tuned and capable webserver with gzip compression enabled will always be quicker than using a public proxy. Also why would I want to send the content of my cookies / forms thru google? It IS a marketing scam, I see them every day ;)
The only possible reason for a proxy is in a corporate environment where you want to cut the bandwidth leaving your building. Which is where this will end up. Another server with holes in it to put in your server rack.
I'll even wager that google will use it to index the content into their search engine, they'll end up indexing a site thru a form submission or cookies they wouldnt normally have access to and end up getting sued. Mark my words :D |
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| And remember, you read # 5 here first ! |
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| Yeah omg thanks for explaining to me #5 , hmm.. .
Mabee you should check HOW THIS REALLY WORKS , then pass comment , and since IT does work , as im using it still , it dont matter how it works.
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| maybe you should stop being a troll and realise some of us know the technacalities to running a proxy service and how the HTTP protocol works. |
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| Aaaaand - it's gone:
"Thank you for your
interest in Google Web Accelerator.
We have currently reached our
maximum capacity of users and
are actively working to increase
the number of users we can support" |
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| Tool , i was pointing out that it don't matter how it works, Im quite aware how Http and proxies work , If you want i could teach you a thingor two ... ? |
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