[e2e] Google Web Accelerator ....

[alok]

Hi,

Even Credit card companies do that, they keep track of where one spends 
and then send in their advertisements accordingly.

My question is more of "how do they track the user"? I can understand if 
the user has some unique identifier, but I think it work via things like 
messaging software too, even if I untick the preference when I download 
the software.

Would the not amount to a greater flaw, the fact that someone gives you 
a software without saying "this could be used to track your activities"? 
Does any software today write that?

And even if they do, most users dont get around to reading it as it pops 
up on the worst formatted page on the whole download cycle and the 
default the options will always say "yes send me everything"

And ofcourse it always works the reverse when it actually should be used:
example: M$'s default of 'this software has crashed'
 "send" "dont send" and highlight "dont send" ;)

-thanks

Vikrant wrote:

>No, but access to user preferences via the web requests made by them does
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>On 12/5/04, alok <alokdube at hotpop.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>>On 5/5/05, Ritesh Kumar <digitalove at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>  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.
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>>>>Ritesh
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>>>>On 5/5/05, Vikrant Kaulgud <vikrantsk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>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?...
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>>>>>Rgds
>>>>>Vikrant
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>>>>>On 5/5/05, Amr A. Awadallah <aaa at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>>>>>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 ?
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>>>>>>http://webaccelerator.google.com/
>>>>>>http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html
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>>>>>>Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages
>>>>>>load faster, including:
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>>>>>>Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling
>>>>>>Google Web Accelerator traffic.
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>>>>>>Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly
>>>>>>accessible.
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>>>>>>Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since
>>>>>>you last viewed it.
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>>>>>>Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
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>>>>>>Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
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>>>>>>Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
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>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>Vikrant
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>>>>http://www.cs.unc.edu/~ritesh/
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