Google Web Accelerator - Speed up the web!

sharpz

Mar 8 2006, 03:42 AM

I was searching from google a couple hours ago, and i noticed a link on the bottom that said 'New: Google Web Accelerator (Beta)". I was instantly curious, and here's what i found: http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html .
It looks like a proxy that automatically crawls through pages and downloads things you will encounter next, speeding up the browsing process. It even has a monitor of how much time you saved. Im installing it as im typing this, and i will update on how it is.

Albus Dumbledore

Mar 8 2006, 04:03 AM

lol, as i said before google is coming up with a ton of things to get to the top, they have got to have the most free stuff on the web! and its awsome, i might concider getting this!

Sam2698

Mar 8 2006, 04:16 AM

apparently this software was an absolute waste of my hardisk as it did not increase my speed by a nanobyte but instead made my experiance on the internet slower.

I do not exactly know why it might be only my computer or it might be meant for only dial up or slow speed internet users, but even so it is similar to the experiance I had with google desktop, which guzzles your ram.

but if anyone else has different opinions and experiance I am not disagreeing with them I am just stating my own experiance.

Albus Dumbledore

Mar 8 2006, 04:41 AM

Sam2698, agree'd...i downloaded it and it made it slower lol, unless you are really desperate in trying to speed up your internet, i would suggest trying it but it will more than likely not work...or atleast it didn't for me..and that is two people....maybe you need to do it in Internet Explore...i did it in firefox...

sharpz

Mar 8 2006, 06:53 AM

i think you have to let it crawl for a while or something; it cant just produce pages from no where. i think it does the work while your idle like deskbar maybe ..

htdefiant

Mar 8 2006, 11:24 AM

When I got it, it worked great for like the first 5 pages. Then it was really slow. I restarted firefox, and it worked great for 5 pages. Then it was really slow. I restarted firefox...

T100

Mar 8 2006, 01:17 PM

I have heard about this before. I think it is particular useful to countries with strict censorships (censorship is wrong, no matter political or pornographic). I also have friends with connections fast locally but get unbearably slow overseas. Web-accelerator is best for them. As far as I am concerned, I have quite a decent connection, so I have not considered using it. One of its problems is that you often get logged in forums or other places in others’ credentials, probably something wrong with the cookies and thing. And if there is a robot.txt at the site, some of the directories may become inaccessible by the accelerator.

delivi

Mar 8 2006, 01:43 PM

Google Web Acclerator is there for years.

I wonder what it is up for. This is the only thing I really disliked among all that Google provides.

It is just worthless and no use. It didnt even increase my speeds by a single percent.

Hope Google will rectify this and will provide something which will be of more useful.

SqlByte

Mar 8 2006, 03:13 PM

Well it is web Acctelerator, it cannot just create you a fast connection, it can only make it "better"
And if you think that it slow down the connection reasons maybe its becouse made for "slower" connection

or it is made for dialup...
But why would someone especialy Google gave some product that just vaste your hard disk space nad ram memory...
Im not realy into those web Accelerators but they probobly dont work for everyone.
btw its still in beta... google is whole in beta ( except search ;P)
Google beta

Arigato

Mar 8 2006, 11:39 PM

From what I have heard there are quite a few security problem with this tool such as people being logged into others accounts when they view it with the accelerator. I used it for a while but I didn't notice any difference between the connection speeds so I just uninstalled it.

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minimcmonkey

Jun 26 2008, 10:41 AM

I have just instaledgoogle web accelerator, and so far, it seems to have made mt internet run slower. I hope things will inprove when i restart my computer, or as i use it more.
Anyway, its only the BETA version, so hopefully, the full version will be better!

salemaj

Jun 26 2008, 07:04 AM

Google Accelerator is really a failure, at first couple of uses you notice some increase in speed but as you browse more web pages, articles and images it will get slower and eventually be unbearable. If you want to speed up your internet then you should upgrade your bandwidth from your ISP, that would be your best option really.

Forbez

Jun 25 2008, 10:37 PM

What isn't google going to make? They make everything, it's brilliant really. Soon they may even take over Microsoft lol!

minimcmonkey

Jun 25 2008, 10:08 PM

There are several pieces of software which do this (som can be quite expensive)
The way it works, is their servers download the information, compress it, and send it to your computer which unzips the information, and displays it.
this can increase broadband speeds by up to around 400%
but id be interested to see that google have created a version of it.

woo - this is my 100th post!!

iGuest

Jun 17 2008, 07:17 PM

If you want to speed up browsing, get a good hosts file. It will block all the ads that could slow things down

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