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Google Announces Google CDN

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 28, 2011 @12:50AM from the well-isn't-that-interesting dept.

leetrout writes "Google has introduced their Page Speed Service which 'is the latest tool in Google's arsenal to help speed up the web. When you sign up and point your site's DNS entry to Google, they'll enable the tool which will fetch your content from your servers, rewrite your webpages, and serve them up from Google's own servers around the world.'"

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Re:But what about non-static pages? by trum4n · 2011-07-28 01:02 · Score: 1, Interesting

It more than likely just optimizes known bad code. I would guess it "fixes" pages made with shitty software like Microsoft Frontpage.
No surpises here really by tomcatuk · 2011-07-28 01:21 · Score: 5, Interesting

So in 2010 they tell webmasters speed is now a ranking factor. A few months later they launch a paid for service for webmasters to improve speed. Cynical? Me? Possibly...