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Google Web accelerator
Ok, now Google digs deeper and deeper into your surfing habits. Want Google to know everything you do? And even control some aspects of it? Then try out their newest toy - http://webaccelerator.google.com/
Reports have said it sometimes breaks Firefox and it destroys some cookie-based logins, causing people to have to keep logging in to forums and such.
My tin foil hat is on, and I absolutely refuse to give Google this much info and control over me. I'm staying far far away.
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2. Can I specify which links Google Web Accelerator will prefetch on my pages?
Yes, you can. For each link you'd like us to prefetch, simply add the following snippet of code somewhere in your page's HTML source code:
<link rel="prefetch" href="http://url/to/get/">
The href value should be the actual URL you want prefetched. Google will prefetch this page, and when your users click on this link, that page will load more quickly.
You can learn more about the <link> tag on the Mozilla website.
3. For how many links can I specify prefetching?
Neither Google nor you want to overload your users' connections with too large a download, and if a large number of links on a page are marked for prefetching, overall performance may diminish. So you should only specify prefetching for the links your users are most likely to click on.
4. Are there any files for which I can't specify prefetching?
Yes, there are. We don't prefetch HTTPS: files (i.e., secure pages), or large data files such as MP3 or MPEG. Note, however, that nothing bad will happen if you specify a file type which Google Web Accelerator doesn't prefetch; that file type simply won't load any faster.
5. Will Google Web Accelerator affect my server load or usage statistics?
It depends on whether your pages are cacheable. You can identify page requests prefetched by Google Web Accelerator through the HTTP header X-moz: prefetch. You can learn more about this header on the Mozilla website.
6. Will Google Web Accelerator affect traffic for ads on my site?
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I installed it on IE, and I like it so far. What I don't like is the idea of Google having an extended record of my surfing habits over a period of time. For this reason, I probably won't use this for any length of time.
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Web Accelerator acts as a anonymizing proxy and shows up as 72.14.194.26 in my site logs.
Doesn't this give potential for click-fraud?
I had trouble logging into 1 forum (not seochat) until I turned-off Web Accelerator. Could W/A's cookie handling mess up my affilate cookies?
The above are side-effects of all proxies but with the Google-branding proxy use could move from a sub-cult to mainstream.
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2. Can I specify which links Google Web Accelerator will prefetch on my pages?
Yes, you can. For each link you'd like us to prefetch, simply add the following snippet of code somewhere in your page's HTML source code:
<link rel="prefetch" href="http://url/to/get/">
The href value should be the actual URL you want prefetched. Google will prefetch this page, and when your users click on this link, that page will load more quickly.
You can learn more about the <link> tag on the Mozilla website.
3. For how many links can I specify prefetching?
Neither Google nor you want to overload your users' connections with too large a download, and if a large number of links on a page are marked for prefetching, overall performance may diminish. So you should only specify prefetching for the links your users are most likely to click on.
I don't think it will take long till somebody finds a way to manipulate this somehow to benefit from it...
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