New Google Tool: Google Web Accelerator, described as:

An application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

How, you ask?

[using] various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

• Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.


• Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.


• Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.


• Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.


• Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.


• Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

The "prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance" part worries me. My machine is slow enough without prefetching, thanks. If someone else tries this, let me know how it works and if you see a significantly noticeable difference.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday May 05, 2005 at 11:19 AM
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