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May 10, 2005
Google Web Deceleration
Google web accelerator software does two thing:
1. Pulls pages of off a caching server to save having to go back to the original web server.
2. Does what amounts to clicking ahead of you so the page is already loaded on your machine saving you having to wait for the page to load.
Although it may conserve bandwidth in some places on the internet, for most ISPs the net effect would be to increase traffic by virtue of the software loading more pages than a user would naturally use.
As a result, this increases web traffic in total, thus increasing congestion thereby conceivably slowing down browsing.
I don't expect to ever use software like this due to my opinions on privacy but it's ironic that something meant to increase speed of browsing could end up working against itself if the theory behind it was pushed to its logical end.
Posted by Derek Leverington at May 10, 2005 1:33 PM
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