Google Web Accelerator?

[TallBill]

Just installed it.. saved zero seconds so far. I hope it doesn't work like my old universitie's cache. That thing would hold onto pages for hours.

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: jjsole
I'm guessing this utility is provided for the purpose of cataloging surfing behavior beyond the current search profiles already collected in order to advance their advertising effectiveness. No thanks.

You are exactly right..

Everyone who is using this.. You do realize that all your traffic is being routed through googles proxy servers.. Now they can watch EXACTLY HOW YOU BROWSE

 

[Deslok]

Google stores every search ever made through their site, links, etc.

 

[moomoo40moo]

Iv saved 3.6 seconds and there seems to be a noticable improvement

 

[SuperSix]

Great!

I knocked off my Google toolbar - great programming.

/me unistalls with a quickness

 

[sonambulo]

yeah, they also save even the gmail stuff you delete forever (no lie)

 

[CrazyPerson]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
yeah, they also save even the gmail stuff you delete forever (no lie)

they must be enjoying all the porn i get in mail

 

[suse920]

Originally posted by: Baked
Damn, Google's gonna run everybody outta business. All they need to do now is come out w/ a free newsgroup program.

++ to that

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: ChooChooChooseMe

Originally posted by: dwell
Works for Firefox. Good deal.

how can you tell?

It says it does.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

What a joke. Maybe if I was on dialup...........

 

[Kanalua]

no obvious benefits to outweigh the potential drawbacks (Big Brother)...just uninstalled it...

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Originally posted by: Kanalua
no obvious benefits to outweigh the potential drawbacks (Big Brother)...just uninstalled it...

Yep. Using FireFox it saved me a whole second after 20 minutes of browsing and was still slower than Opera. No thanks.

 

[zimu]

i have yet to go over 0.0 seconds saved, have been browsing for 10 mins after installing it.
hmmm.

 

[whistleclient]

boing boing comment on it:

"Google accelerator is a scary anonymizer
Xeni blogged Polymorf's note about the new Google Accelerator being useful as an anonymizer, but of course you're not anonymous to Google, which knows about your search history (if you've got cookies on), your email address (if you register for Groups, etc), your friends (if you use Orkut), your email (if you use gmail), and even has your credit card (if you use AdWords or Answers). Anonymity from everyone except Google is nice, but it's not really anonymity, given how easy it would be to subpoena information from them (everyone knows where Google is), and given how much info this allows Google to collect and correlate on you.
This is an amazing service, without a doubt -- I'll use it for lightweight proxy-evasion, etc, but caveat surfer. It would be great to see Google setting up a Tor node with similar resources to this, though, and enabling some more robust anonymity."

 

[aidanjm]

looks like it's just a proxy server service. big fvcking deal.

 

[dug777]

i haven't noticed anything yet

 

[CarpeDeo]

1.1 minutes after about 20 min's of browsing? I'm overseas in Taiwan, so maybe that makes it more effective, though I can't tell if it's actually faster or not.

 

[Quasmo]

I bet it wont work for alot of BB users. You really have to brows for it to work

 

[chrisms]

yea dude i bet it wont work

 

[amol]

hmmm ... feels faster ...

I have only been using it for about 2 minutes and already 6 seconds saved

 

[dug777]

saved me a min in an hour

better than nothing i guess

 

[Quasmo]

I wonder what it would do for me... I bet wouldn't do anything

 

[Quasmo]

Opera ownzzors

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I wonder what it would do for me... I bet wouldn't do anything

maybe try it

then you'll find out

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I wonder what it would do for me... I bet wouldn't do anything

maybe try it

then you'll find out

It doesn't work on Opera