[e2e] Google Web Accelerator ....

[Vikrant]

No, but access to user preferences via the web requests made by them does

On 12/5/04, alok <alokdube at hotpop.com> wrote:
> Does caching content consitute infringement at all?
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> Vikrant wrote:
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> >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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>--
> >>http://www.cs.unc.edu/~ritesh/
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Regards,
Vikrant