[e2e] Google Web Accelerator ....

[Vikrant]

Yes, but that raises the spectre of privacy infringements now or in the future.


On 5/5/05, Ritesh Kumar <digitalove at gmail.com> wrote:
>    Actually, routing all your web requests through google will give
> them a very good dataset for web page popularity. Infact giving a
> web-caching service seems to be good service in exchange of that
> "private" data.
> 
> Ritesh
> 
> On 5/5/05, Vikrant Kaulgud <vikrantsk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> 
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Regards,
Vikrant