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check this out, works quite nice for me. http://webaccelerator.google.com

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It's also a sort-of pseduo anonymizer
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Doesn't seem to speed things up too much for me... of course, I live by an educational institution, so that probably has some large effect on my original speed. Been at it for an hour or so and it says 12.3 seconds saved. wee

Curious about the security implications of this. When you deactivate a site (from being accellerated), does it really go straight to the site only, or does Google still retrieve information?

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(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 05-05-2005 14:50)

Sounds cool, but in the faq, under question 2 there is this: "Compressing data before sending it to your computer." Is this anything like AOL or the others do, compress images before sending them?

Ramasax

Yup. To increase the number of things you can stuff down a given-sized pipe, make the things smaller.

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not everyone likes the idea, either.

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2858

Well, Google is quickly turning into a bad apple in my eyes. Not on purpose, it is just a progression through excessive growth. There is no such thing as a benevolent empire.

Google trying to patent news ranking by quality

Ramasax

Whoops....
Google Accelerator is no Anonymizer

So basically you add a middleman, Google collects some more info about you, total tracking of your interests, behaviors, searches, purchases, etc. Would you let MS do that? Then why let Google?

I don't know, I never thought much of these accelerators, and am dumbfounded why you would need one with broadband anyway.

Ramasax