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kryogenix
http://webaccelerator.google.com/

Very interesting. It's available for IE and Mozilla Firefox
adamwey
daymn. that sounds pretty sweet
and since its from goolge, it cant be bad happy.gif
sweetxsimplicity
Hm..does it really accelerate?
kryogenix
QUOTE(sweetxsimplicity @ May 4 2005, 7:18 PM)
Hm..does it really accelerate?
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well, apparently, it only really works for broadband.
cocoalightning27
O sweet I"m gonna go try it...

edit// I don't really notice it but it says I have 2 seconds saved....
ryanoman
lol... maybe i'll get it... i'll see what everyone else thinks of it.
JC4P
it doesnt really accelarate, it makes pictures a tiny little bit worse quality. and it wouldnt let me open up Firefox. and did you get this link from Digg.com? cuz if you didnt you should go there.
Baku
QUOTE(cocoalightning27 @ May 4 2005, 7:20 PM)
O sweet I"m gonna go try it...

edit// I don't really notice it but it says I have 2 seconds saved....
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owned i got 3 seconds saved haha
kryogenix
QUOTE(JC4P @ May 4 2005, 8:47 PM)
it doesnt really accelarate, it makes pictures a tiny little bit worse quality. and it wouldnt let me open up Firefox. and did you get this link from Digg.com? cuz if you didnt you should go there.
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nah, i got it from slashdot.
cocoalightning27
^well I got 6.3 minutes saved now.....eat that!!!lol.....
Chaos13
Why need it when you have braodband already?? Oh well buts its awesome.
visualfusion
"In order to speed up delivery of content, Google Web Accelerator may retrieve webpage content that you did not request, and store it in your Google Web Accelerator cache." ... google is information hungry... THEY'RE A MONSTERRR!
x LUV x ALWAYS x
haha, that sounds cool, but at the same time it seems that it might be taking up space? and saving unnecessary things. i dunno, i'll stick with my DSL. its fine.
Eryi
I wouldn't want to try, but let's see who else has to say about this product. _smile.gif
mona lisa
I don't trust it one bit even it's from google. I can't even find it if I search for google webaccelerator in google.
cocoalightning27
http://www.internetweek.com/allStories/sho...cleID=162600305
That reports it....

I'm up to 10.1 minutes saved...like I really even notice..but it does speed it up a little...
IGB
gee, do people ever try to find out anything thru the "LEARN MORE" link? if you can't find it , HERE. Go look under "how does it work", if you think those ways of "saving speed" applies to you, then get it, otherwise dont.

I personally dont like it. because all it does is routing files through another server, compressing it, load subpages in advance, putting pages in cache and maybe mess with your connection setting. It probably would seem like it loads faster on your computer. But knowing how it really works, it doesn't save a single bit of bandwidth, neither does your internet connection go a single B/sec faster. It just makes the loading happen at the right time from the right place.
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