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by **krod** on Sun May 15, 2005 5:03 pm

I was one of the lucky ones to download this program, a week after they released this program:

Thank you for your
interest in Google Web Accelerator.
We have currently reached our
maximum capacity of users and
are actively working to increase
the number of users we can support.

Two days after I installed google web accelerator, i un-installed it.
About 1/3 of the time, i got an error message: 'This page can not be found'.
It does seem cool, maybe good for dial-up users, but i don't suggest it for people with high-speed internet connections.

by **thebeast** on Mon May 16, 2005 12:04 pm

Maybe that accelerator is not ready and it'll be in future more fixed for use :-)

by **krod** on Mon May 23, 2005 8:04 pm

i think that they may dis-continue it

by **undercolors** on Tue May 24, 2005 5:21 am

i never tried web accelators..im using netscape and firefox as my web browsers and it improved my web browsing experiece. Smile

by **pugrit** on Wed May 25, 2005 12:21 am

i hope i can get a chance to test it. i really need speed in my internet conection. hehehehhehehehe

by **nuke** on Fri May 27, 2005 5:47 pm

it's for linux? where i download it?

by **S1RHC** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:29 pm

Not any more...
It is discontinued coz it is suspected for the DNS problems that caused google.com to turn to google.com.not ( a totally different search engine) on May 27 (I think) Razz

by **Puffball** on Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:46 am

The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages loading faster (since theyve already been pre-loaded behind the scenes). Heres the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page including links like delete this or cancel that. And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations. So, if you have a Are you sure you want to delete this? Javascript confirmation behind that delete link, Google ignores it and performs the action anyway.

Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/ ... cce_1.html

It shows the user capacity as filled, but I have a feeling nobody is using the service at this point.

by **DeeBG** on Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:38 am

I believe Mozilla/Firefox browsers naturally do this to some extent. The only reason I think this is because I remember reading a security related post a while back about someone worried about pre-cached content from using the Firefox browser. As far as Google, it seems like they have a lot on their plate at the moment. IMO it'd be better to get GMail and Google Video out of beta (although Google Video has the apperence of an alpha form).

by **Alt** on Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:46 am

EEP, google web accelerator is pure evil Evil incarnate.

by **r0mc** on Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:38 pm

does it really work?

by **crfitux** on Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:59 am

I heard that Google's beta product also cached serviced logged in,
so users were logging in to services to find Google loaded the cached version of the logged in page meaning that the user could view that other peoples information such as private messages, personal information, etcetera. Sad

Hopefully the service is going to be more successful in the future.

Regards, Critux

by **BlueFusionX** on Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:59 pm

Yeah it sounds like it needs more work Wink

by **crack0** on Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:12 pm

do you think that accelators realy speed up your download
I belive that that google accelator just give us less result on given word
if I am wrong correct me but if you have good connection that's it Wink

by **Bugs42** on Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:51 am

Bah! I don't trust any of those web accelerator programs. Half of 'em are useless, the other half are spyware.

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