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Google Web Accelerator

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-faster dept.

Lukey Boy writes "Google has released a free web accelerator product for both Firefox and Internet Explorer. According to their information page the software uses Google servers as a proxy for web content, delivering the pages to your system more rapidly and compressing them beforehand."

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  1. More info by ranson · · Score: 5, Informative

    More information about GWA is posted here: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050504-1453 07 Also, browsers other than Firefox and Mozilla can take advantage of GWA if you set them to proxy requests over Localhost:9100 while GWA is running in the system tray. It should also be pointed out that this is apparently geared towards broadband users.

  2. Is this like... by cs02rm0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...a proxy which just compressed stuff on the server and then decompresses it on the client?

    Oh... yes.

    Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

    * 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.

  3. No thanks! by sanermind · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions from time to time in its sole discretion, without notice or liability to you. You agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, as modified.
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  4. Re:do no evil! by Dun+Malg · · Score: 5, Informative
    Dow Chemical's motto is "Living. Improved Daily". Unless you're one of 15,000-30,000 people in Bhopal, India, of course.

    Nice troll. Inflamatory, and correct only by a tenuous strand of tortured logic. It was Union Carbide who gassed Bhopal, which didn't merge with Dow until 1999, a full fifteen years after the incident, and five years after Union Carbide sold its 51% interest in the Bhopal facility.

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  5. Re:I keed! I keed! by bmrh · · Score: 5, Informative

    No privacy policy?

    I clicked on the "Pricay Policy" link and saw this:
    http://www.google.com/privacy.html

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