Google Web Accelerator
More cool stuff from Google — the Web Accelerator (beta) — article at Search Engine Watch
It appears to turn Google’s infrastructure into a big prefetching web cache, among other things, which should do good things for end user performance, but should also give Google an (even more) amazing view of a big piece of web traffic. The network engineer part of me really likes the idea, but it also makes the privacy advocate part of me really twitchy…
description from SEW:
Tags: none+ Prefetching material
In part, determined by an algorithm developed at Google that looks at
mouse movements and aggregate traffic to sites to try to determine what to prefetch
+ Caching of pages on Google’s own servers
They will also try to determine how frequently material is updated and continuously have the latest copy available on their servers. Mayer said that GWA and Google’s new search history product are completely independent of one another.
+ Parallel downloading
Download multiple parts of the page (images for example) at the same
time.
+ Differential fetching
Instead of downloading the entire page, GWA will try send only what
might have changed on the page
+ Compression
