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Google’s Web Accelerator
Posted May 4, 2005 – 7:13 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in TechnologyThe latest entry into the ever growing Google Labs sandbox is the Google Web Accelerator – a tool that claims to speed up your browsing speed. Among the tricks used to do that are the following:
o Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
o Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
o Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
o Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
o Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
o Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
I do wonder if sending the stuff through Google’s machine actually preserves your privacy somehow. They do not proxy HTTPS requests so at least your private data is somewhat safe but the rest is proxies and as the privacy policy says they do record your requests. Now think as to what a lawyer with a subpoena could do with that information…
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