Google Web Accelerator


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Yes, maybe google does have the ability to snoop users but I don't think they'll ever use it.

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Why wouldn't they? To say such a thing is naive.

Any corporation that is in the business of making money will make decisions that, in the end, make them money. If you stupidly tell Google all of your surfing habits (including all of your buying habits, all of your warez site visits, any porn site visits, any Amazon sites visits, how many times you email your loved one, etc.), are you so naive that you think Google will NOT use each and every little bit of information that you blithely give them to make a profit off of you?

If you are so enamored of Google's omnipotence and think that they can do no harm, then please, give them anything they ask for.

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I've been giving this a go since I saw it on cnet earlier, irony of ironies, it stopped me from opening this thread (or any other link on Neowin). Also prevented me logging in to another forum I visit frequently...

...definitely still beta quality

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Quick update, link appears to have been taken down.... (or at least it 404's for me now, same with support page) Guess it's not ready yet eh?

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Time Saved with Google Accel after 2 days: 2.5 Minutes

Time spent looking at the Google Accel during 2 days: 10 Minutes

Wow.....

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You might want to check the spelling there, eh?

co.uk, not c.uk

I can trust Google, I'm using it right now, I can notice a difference:):)

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he knew that bud, hes just pointing out that it forwards to a google error message, not a firefox one.

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Lol Brilliant, and as sumeet said i was pointing out it now takes you to a google page not found page

Time Saved with Google Accel after 2 days: 2.5 Minutes

Time spent looking at the Google Accel during 2 days: 10 Minutes

Wow.....

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Ya know, in the long run web accelerators just clog up networks with unnecessary bandwidth from all the prefetching. So, theoretically, if lots of people used one, the internet would get SLOWER. It also only is faster assuming that your connection to Google is faster than your connection to the site (if you don't factor in prefetching or compression).

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Source http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/...39197327,00.htm

A software tool launched by Google on Wednesday that speeds up the process of downloading Web sites has caused some users to worry about their privacy.

Google Web Accelerator, which was released in beta, is set up to automatically work with Firefox and Internet Explorer once it's been downloaded. The service stores copies of sites frequently accessed by individual PCs and automatically retrieves new data from those pages, so that a Web browser needs to process only updates to those sites when asked to load them. It can also automatically "pre-fetch" frequently used Web sites before the user downloads it.

However, users are concerned that the service can cache more data from their computers than they would prefer.

On a Google Labs discussion group, one user said that the security implications of Google caching details of Internet sessions were unacceptable.

"I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know. Great, I've used Google's Web Accelerator for a couple of hours, visited lots of sites where I'm logged in. Now I wonder how many people used my cache. I understand it's a beta, sure, but something like that is totally unacceptable."

Google was not immediately available for comment, but said in a Web site statement that the service can receive information such as the user's IP address, computer and connection information, and "personally identifiable information", such as an email address.

"Whenever your computer sends cookies with browsing or prefetching page requests for unencrypted sites, we temporarily cache these cookies in order to improve performance," the company wrote on its Web site.

Information entered in SSL connections, such as Internet banking, will not be cached, the company wrote.

The service is only available to broadband subscribers.

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says I saved 18 sec in one day.. thats enough to take a pee, or sneeze!! Thanks google, you are always looking out for me.

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:laugh: :laugh:

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As much as I trust Google, I wont use it because I'm on broadband. It could be quite helpful for those on dialup, who knows.

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Actually it?s the opposite. :rolleyes::

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This almost sounds like a scam. They can read every single site we go to since all requests go through google, and plus I dont see how thats making things faster, instead of going directly to the site. I'll pass on this one.

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This almost sounds like a scam. They can read every single site we go to since all requests go through google, and plus I dont see how thats making things faster, instead of going directly to the site. I'll pass on this one.

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Scam or not; the notice is visible to me (on roughly 3MB Comcast cable broadband).

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Guys, don't download this. It has a major security hole.

I downloaded this, thinking it'd speed up my internet connection. What it has doen is allowed me to login as other users on this board.

Major security issues here:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/...39197327,00.htm

"I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know. Great, I've used Google's Web Accelerator for a couple of hours, visited lots of sites where I'm logged in. Now I wonder how many people used my cache. I understand it's a beta, sure, but something like that is totally unacceptable."

PLEASE READ

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too bad it doesn't work for windows 98. :x Do you think google will come out with a windows Me or lower version?

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Why the hell are you using windows 98 :x

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