Google Web Accelerator

[commOdog]

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

original post here:

original hot deal thread

post your thoughts, evidence, technical knowledge or whatever concerning the new google web accelerator

 

[Zim]

Ooooooh, this is so technical!

 

[TekDemon]

So far this is very interesting...it seems to be VERY beneficial for forums that normally load at slug-like speeds...particularly the Rebels Haven Computer Forum actually.

But Anandtech forums gets a pretty big boost too (it's just bigger for RHCF since RHCF is horribly slow normally)

It in fact, managed to load my school's student management website faster than it normally loads, which is awfully weird since it's local...hmmm

 

[Modeps]

word

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

... There have been like 6 posts about this already...

 

[commOdog]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
... There have been like 6 posts about this already...

i was told by a moderator to move the discussion over to this board so i did.
If you have a problem with it then take it up with the mods

 

[John]

I'd rather not give up my privacy, nor would I want to cache somone elses information.

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: John
I'd rather not give up my privacy, nor would I want to cache somone elses information.

What do you mean by cache someone elses info?

 

[imported_Arden]

I was surfing and I believe that it was in the Major Geeks forum that this accelerator was being removed as recommended for two fold reasons. One that it actually appeared to slowdown things and the other issue was "privacy" concerns.

i didn't see the earlier posts so i apologize if i am reiterating.

i just noticed the topic here and thus decided to post what I had read.

Regards

 

[chiwawa626]

When using this program I seem to have trouble on certain sites that have dynamic content...meh which makes it useless for me - if it dosent work on every site then i don't want it.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Read the legal crap. They will be caching your cookies as well as pages you've visited AND using your browsed pages for marketing info.

No thanks.

It's a proxy cache. Cached proxies ALWAYS have problems with dynamic content. Same problem with AOL.

If you have broadband, I see no need for proxy caching.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: FlyingPenguin
Read the legal crap. They will be caching your cookies as well as pages you've visited AND using your browsed pages for marketing info.

No thanks.

It's a proxy cache. Cached proxies ALWAYS have problems with dynamic content. Same problem with AOL.

If you have broadband, I see no need for proxy caching.

is using your pages for marketing info any different then anything else Google is doing?

i am on dial-up and probably use it just to load these forums . . . well testing it anyway . . . mostly it is 'disabled' for d/l'ing. . . it seems to work better than Earthlink's accelerator for Firefox.

 

[ripn]

Here is a mirror for those still interested in it...
http://home.insightbb.com/~google/

 

[gorcorps]

I have no change here. I used it w/ firefox and browsed around for a few hours and it saved me a whole .2 seconds! Then I turned it off. However, my web is fast enough so I couldn't really ask for any improvement in page loads as it is.