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Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers

Posted by Zonk on from the two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together dept.

kv9 writes "A post on GoogleBlog reveals that Google has enabled results prefetching for Mozilla based browsers, which means that the top results of queries are being loaded in the background and pages will load faster. More info on the Mozilla Prefetching FAQ and the Google Webmaster FAQ"

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  1. Prefetching not fast enough.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .. for a first post!

  2. But usually the top links on google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    are spammers, i rarely find relavent links on the first page thesedays, usually the first page is full of spammers and scummy affiliates, on some queries its not until you get to page 3-4 that you start to get what you want, i cant imagine how bad its gonna be in 5 years

    maybe its time to offload that google stock because if they dont fix it (a really, really hard problem) its just gonna be another yellow pages, ie a database of adverts, perhaps a voting/moderation system would fix it, i dunno i cant see how they are going to stop its demise

    --AJS

    1. Re:But usually the top links on google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      moderators on crack again,
      only on slashdot would comments about google on a google discussion topic would be modded off-topic
      understandable if it was bullshit but the parent is dead on, and this pre-fetch will just make it worse

  3. Re:Offtopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This one?
    http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefetch

    if you get url with %23 in your browser and it fails, alter that to a #...

    Or alternatively open
    http://www.google.com/help/features.html

    and look for prefetch

  4. TERRI SCHIAVO, DEAD AT 41 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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