[e2e] Google Web Accelerator ....

[Vikrant Kaulgud]

Hi,
I had checked this few days back. Prima facie, it seems to offer a
higher degree of personalization with intelligent caching etc. Another
question that always pops up in mind is: Google started as a search
company, why is it diversifying in to seemingly non-core areas like
email, web acceleration etc. Is Google becoming a monopoly?...

Rgds
Vikrant


On 5/5/05, Amr A. Awadallah <aaa at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> Very interested to hear what folks think about this product from Google.
> As the network becomes faster, and most web servers support compression,
> is there still value in doing this ? I mean, there is Akamai for
> embedded objects, etc, but do we need it for the html pages too ?
> 
> http://webaccelerator.google.com/
> http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html
> 
> 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.
> 
> 


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Regards,
Vikrant