Tuesday, January 30, 2007

What CAN'T Google Do?

Google Labs is introducing a web accelerator. What is it? It's an application that uses Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. All you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

How does it work? To make your web pages load faster it sends your requests thru machines that are dedicated to handling accelerator traffic, it stores copies of pages you look at a lot, it only downloads updates of pages you have visited, it manages your internet connection to reduce delays, and it compresses data before sending it to your computer.

Alas. It's only for Windows right now.

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

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