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 May 13 2005, 07:44 PM
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Privileged Member  Group: Members Posts: 933 Joined: 24-August 04 Member No.: 892 myCENT:ZERO  |
Google had a load of criticism after launching its dodgy speed booster called "Google Web Accelerator".
How it works is to saving pages onto its servers, to reduce loading times, giving you the cached pages. The Google Web Accelerator's dedicated servers continually store and update the most popular pages, and if a previously downloaded page has changed the servers will only send the changes so that it can update more quickly. However, thousands of users have complained that caching in this way can accidently reveal personal information including bank details. So, only a week after it was launched, Google have stopped downloads of it, although they say it's because the tool has proved too popular. lmao. http://webaccelerator.google.com/ |
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May 13 2005, 10:21 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 14-August 04 Member No.: 808 |
i had downloaded this but not actually used it
does it really make it faster or anything? |
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May 13 2005, 11:25 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 933 Joined: 24-August 04 Member No.: 892 myCENT:ZERO |
I tried it, an yes it does, all it does it gets ready saved files off the googles servers, and gives them straight to you, no hastle, but if the page has changed, it updated then and there.
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May 13 2005, 11:46 PM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: 13-May 05 Member No.: 7,019 |
The whole idea of the web accelerator was to give the illusion that pages loaded faster. In reality, what was happening was the GWA was clicking links to preload content so the end user wouldn't have to wait for pages to actually load.
Prefetching content for users. |
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May 14 2005, 05:56 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 4,988 |
Heh, I tried it for a couple of days, and I saved 10 minutes from my browsing thme. Interesting. And also, this isnt spyware infested unlike other accelerators
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May 15 2005, 04:18 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 661 Joined: 10-January 05 Member No.: 3,189 |
Beware of things that seem too good to be true. Google Web Accelerator isn't always the best, as there are some security issues revolving around it.
Read this article for more details -> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/06/googl...elerator_i.html |
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May 15 2005, 10:53 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 933 Joined: 24-August 04 Member No.: 892 myCENT:ZERO |
Thats the general idea of putting it in the 'Security Issues & Exploits' forum
 If you read what i wrote, you may have noticed what I was saying 
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Apr 29 2006, 07:13 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 24-April 06 Member No.: 22,375 |
Infact , Buddy a really nice sharing .
I just downlaod it , and try it , it saves my 15 minutes and a really nice tool. again it has to be said , Google always provde the Best Features
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May 2 2006, 07:45 AM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 27-April 06 Member No.: 22,611 |
Yes , i download it use it . It works really nice .
It saves almost 10 minutes for me . But I think so that is a little bit risky.  |
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