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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. Re:I keed! I keed! by mtz206 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hell, I submitted this same story 3 hours earlier and it got rejected. Must be my breath or something...

  2. Re:Smart. Scary. by Neurotoxic666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First, they collect your search information. Next they collected your email. Now they collect your destination. You put it all together, that is quite a bit of information.

    I know this doesn't apply to the majority of the slashdot crowd, but I still find it strange that people will panic about a company that collects some personal information yet they'll cope with the fact that there's a god, somewhere, knowing all...

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    You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
  3. Re:Smart. Scary. by 77Punker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google news is news, not usenet. Google groups is usenet.