GOLFnSUN
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4 edits |  With broadband connection; not useful product
I had tried this on the 1st day it was available. It worked, but I could see no noticeable speed advantage to the product, and a lot of reasons not to use it. Especially the security angle, but also the fact that many sites I visit, including BBR, are very time sensitive.
I ran it about 2 hours, but then uninstalled it. I think Google froze new downloads, not because of the fact it was beta, but because it wasn't a useful product for broadband and because many users saw serious security issues.
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| said by GOLFnSUN  :I think Google froze new downloads, not because of the fact it was beta, but because it wasn't a useful product for broadband and because many users saw serious security issues. I think I am going to have to agree. Interesting how Google never got too many beta users for gmail or any of their many other beta services.
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Ahh, google.. this company will probably hit a soft patch for a few year while broadband gets it sea legs with 10+megabits deploying to many parts of the USA and until that becomes reality, they'll have to hone that new "IPOD" of a killer app well so that when the time comes, it will make thing much better.. If I were them, I'd try getting something along the lines of a visual google search engine that immediately takes a snapshot of evey web page it pulls in the search results, immediately available without acutally going to the site that is more intuitive, becuse people can see the kinds of content they want instead of a (primarily) text based search kind of like a remote control flipping channels among content eventually bridging the gap between TV, broadcast and Inernet content |
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Jason Levine
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said by GOLFnSUN :I think Google froze new downloads, not because of the fact it was beta, but because it wasn't a useful product for broadband and because many users saw serious security issues. That could be. Google Labs (where the Web Accelerator was launched) is a spot for Google to put up conceptual tests that may or may not pan out into their own "Google application." Right on Labs.Google.com, they say that the applications "are still in the beginning stages of development" and "may disappear without warning or perform erratically."
My guess is that someone at Google used their 20% time to develop this and got the green light to toss it up onto the Labs site. Google will most likely end the trial run at some point, take the Web Accelerator site down, but use the underlying technology other areas of their site. (Perhaps integrating some aspects of it into the advanced functionality of the Google Toolbar.)
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Viper007Bond
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Hmm, I thought I noticed a difference. *shrugs* |
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Jerm
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Hey guys...
Why do you doubt Google's reasons for pulling it? Remember, Gmail was invite only - that controlled the pace that people could sign up and tax their servers.
Web proxy's use MUCH more bandwidth and CPU power than web email. Think about it. To make caching worth it, you have supply reliable bandwidth for each person at the speed of each person's connection, and you have to cache all that data.
For all we know they could have pulled it because the server's were getting tax'd to the point where it was more of a web-decelerator! |
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