Google launches in beta software that the company says will speed up the time it takes to search the Internet and to load web content.
Google Inc. has launched in beta software that the company says will speed up the time it takes to search the Internet and to load web content.
Web Accelerator, which is available at no charge, runs alongside a browser and directs all searches and page requests through Google's servers. The software supports Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browsers.
In improving performance on the web, the application makes use of a cache, or data store, on the local computer, as well as caches on Google's servers, Marissa Mayer, director of consumer web products for Google, said Thursday. The software is only available for broadband users.
The desktop cache is for web pages that are pre-loaded based on a person's web activity. The software uses mathematical formulas to try to determine what web content the person is most likely to seek, based on prior behavior. The cache on Google's server is populated with popular web content based on the activity of Web Accelerator users as a whole.
http://webaccelerator.google.com
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SINCE Google announced its super soaraway web accelerator, a number of web sites are offering ways to disable it.
The freshly fledged Google "service" stores every web page that you happened to look at so that you can retrieve it quickly. The only problem is that it is serving the wrong pages to people.
According to the searchenginejournal.com, already someone using the service has reported that they were logged into a forum under some other username.
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