I read this...don't miss the comments underneath the post. But I don't get what they're angry about and why they are calling google thieves. Can someone explain to me what WA is doing that is bad?
From what I can see google is copying websites over to their own servers so that the pages will load faster for users of web accelerator. Some people claim that this is a attempt by google to take over the internet. From a more practical point of view the software is full of bugs and creates all sorts of havoc for web site owners.
It will also cache a website says dp when im seeing it, then when you visit you will see the website with my info, Google obviously blames it on us(website owners) when its their software. It also affect my tracking of users, It might end up using more BW on the site than normal.
BandWidth... I put the tag in my sites to prevent GWA previously, but now they don't support the tag. How nice.
I think it's paranoia. Because my only option is dialup where I live, I use a web accelerator - not Google's because they're not letting anyone new in just now. The pages are cached partly on the web accelerator and partly on my computer but the main speed boost comes from image compression. Everything it does is optional. I can turn off compression. I can clear the cache. I can force a page reload. It's for the most part transparent. The only problem I have is that on slow loading pages it times out too quickly, in which case I do a right click | disable and reload the page.
man mistrel ... you're committed ... your on this site all day and you're on dial up ... how can you stand it? i'd be a nerved up wreck. actually ... i probably be doing somethign else.
I'm not really here all day. Usually just in the morning and then late at night. The rest of the time I'm at my office doing my day job Dial-up does suck but what can I say? Cable has made it to about 5 miles east of me (in the closest little village) - maybe in another few years it'll finally make it down here. The phone lines are way too old for highspeed. Wireless is insane for setup costs. I may look into satellite modem in the new year - that may be more reasonable.
GWA is not for dial-up its only for broadband. GWA is nasty. I have some great links to some very infomative pages about GWA but I cant post urls yet GWA generates impressions on webpages, so whats stopping it from clicking on online "ppc" ads on your site? Not only that, Google's Marissa Mayer told SEW: "that when Google prefetches a page, webmasters will see a Google user agent in their user logs. In other cases, GWA will proxy the traffic of the GWA user." Isn't that giving a fast proxy for site rippers? Check out this from from techdirt. com "However, one very interesting side effect. Using the Google Web Accelerator with the MS Firewall Clinet allows me to bypass Websense and acceess blocked sites from inside the corporate firewall." I think Goolge should squash this one!
I have tried it three different times, each time it wrecks my computer. It doesnt even work, it's just stupid.