Google Web Accelerator

[vestero]

Anyone try this yet?

Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show
up in a snap.
FREE and takes seconds to install
System Requirements
Operating System: Win XP or Win 2000 SP3+
Browser: IE 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+
Availability: For users in North America and Europe (during beta
testing phase)
Google Web Accelerator is...
· Designed for Broadband - Web pages load even more quickly on DSL
and cable connections
· Easy to use - Simply install and enjoy faster web browsing in
seconds

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

 

[Krull]

Anyone try this yet?

Just tried to install it, but:

"Error 2894. Internal Error 2894. 193
Installation ended prematurely because of an error."

Too bad.

 

[kenny]

well then google will know all the pages everyone went to...

I dont like that idea....

My dsl is fast enough...


Anyone try this yet?

Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show
up in a snap.
FREE and takes seconds to install
System Requirements
Operating System: Win XP or Win 2000 SP3+
Browser: IE 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+
Availability: For users in North America and Europe (during beta
testing phase)
Google Web Accelerator is...
· Designed for Broadband - Web pages load even more quickly on DSL
and cable connections
· Easy to use - Simply install and enjoy faster web browsing in
seconds

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

Anyone try this yet?

Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show
up in a snap.
FREE and takes seconds to install
System Requirements
Operating System: Win XP or Win 2000 SP3+
Browser: IE 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+
Availability: For users in North America and Europe (during beta
testing phase)
Google Web Accelerator is...
· Designed for Broadband - Web pages load even more quickly on DSL
and cable connections
· Easy to use - Simply install and enjoy faster web browsing in
seconds

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

From the Support page <http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html>

How does using Google Web Accelerator affect my privacy?

Google Web Accelerator receives much of the same kind of information you
currently send to your ISP when you surf the Web:

Google will receive your requests for unencrypted pages (those with "HTTP:",
not "HTTPS:", at the beginning of the URL), along with information such as
the date and time of the request, your IP address, and computer and
connection information

If you enter personally identifiable information (such as an email address)
onto a form on an unencrypted web page, some sites may send this information
through Google. Whenever your computer sends cookies with browsing or
prefetching page requests for unencrypted sites, we temporarily cache these
cookies in order to improve performance

In order to speed up the display of pages generally, Google Web Accelerator
may store copies of web pages, including prefetched pages that you did not
visit, in the Google Web Accelerator cache on your machine. This is separate
from your browser's cache, which only identifies pages that you actually
visited. You can empty your Google Web Accelerator cache at any time by
following these instructions.

The policies for the Google Web Accelerator, like those for Google.com,
uphold the highest level of integrity and respect for our users'
information. Google will never rent or sell a user's personal information to
third parties without a user's explicit permission.

 

[me]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

Anyone try this yet?
-snip-

Read before you try:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/04/google_accellerator_.html

J

 

[Sparky]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:



From the Support page <http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html>

How does using Google Web Accelerator affect my privacy?

I've posted this one here before and it seems apt yet again. It's google
with a lot of bits stripped out for some (relative) privacy.

http://www.scroogle.org/

use in good health,
-Sparky