Google has started accelerator Beta. Does anyone have any experience with it? interesting news article here http://translate.google.com/transla...&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=/language_tools
I use it but there is virtually no help... Out of the 60hours of use, it has helped me shave off 5minutes..
Haven't used it but have banned it: RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(72.14.192.|72.14.194.) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/nogwa.html$ RewriteRule ^.*$ /nogwa.html - Michael
Haven't used it and wouldn't use it. I give G far too much info on my surfing habits already. I don't know what their privacy policy is, but too much information with one organization is in my view undesirable, regardless of what they might say the do to protect my information.
Whispers WMW... I confirmed their existence in server logs but two others mentioned 64.233.172. 64.233.173. have not appeared in the logs yet so I have left them out until they do. - Michael
Why would you want to ban it from your site? If you're worried about a privacy issue, presumably it's the person visiting your site that should worry, not the site owner.
It has nothing to do with a privacy issue. I want to be satisfied that the user experience is the same when the pages are passed through a Google server as when they are served directly from my server. At the moment I see some WA users are loosing their sessions and others get content they are not supposed to see because of pages prefetched for other users. On top of that it interferes with my page impression tracking. It's banned until these issues are resolved. - Michael
I haven't looked across all sites but on larger sites it's between 20 - 40 per 10^6 hits but they may not all be unique visitors. - Michael
I guess my preference is to seriously limit blocked IPs to only a very few high-intensity spammers, hackers, or viral agents (and that really is only a small handful). Anything else is welcome. From the standpoint of eBusiness, I just don't think it's good business to block potential clients or customers. I really don't know how many people are going to latch on to the accelerator -- maybe not many at all -- maybe a lot. There's a risk with anything Google that it COULD be a lot of people... and if so that might be a lot of lost paying customers for anyone blocking the IP.
With reservations for me not being an httpd.conf expert. Blocking Google from (pre)fetching your page shouldn't block persons using the accelerator from accessing it, should it? They would just have to get it directly from your server as it couldn't be prefetched by G.
You may be right. I'm not interested in the using the Accelerator myself so I haven't investigated it at all throughly. The scenario I was worrying about was where you get a visitor that annoys you from an AOL dialup and block the IP, only to later discover you've blocked everyone using that AOL proxy
That scenario does not apply in this case, we are just blocking Google's WA servers. Google seem to have got the message and they will either drop it or come out with an improved version. Google browser anyone? - Michael
IMO this is the worst tool Google has ever produced. This seems like one of those things that 3 or 4 of their guys got together on a ski trip, experienced their first taste of richness (both food, drinks and women) and succumbed to drunken ideas. For those of us who did not grow up in our parents basement, this would equate to egging or toilet papering someone's house... Nothing to really gain by it, lose some adult street cred, but happens because you are hammered...