Ok, what is this and do I want to run it?

Ok, fellow geeks, what are your thoughts on this?

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

- Jon

I've heard bad things about it.

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That sounds like an interesting idea but I don't think it's worth it pages load fast enough with pre-caching.

I personally hate caches. I use about ten web pages frequently, and when I go to them I want a fresh copy more than I want a fast copy. While I havn't use it, I doubt it would save that much time, especially considering my open-tab-in-background habbit.

The only time I'd really like something of the sort is when I'm on a god foresaken GPRS connection and would love a nice compression proxy to make things slightly less painful. Of course, this hasn't been an issue since tmobile cut off free gprs.

Matthew

I cannot come up with any reason for using it. Also, why are they reengineering the HTTP proxy? We already have those and they work fine. Even if they've designed a better-performing backend, there's just no reason to not use the proxy interface that's built into virtually every web browser.

But, again, why do I want all of my web traffic going through Google's servers? Virtually everyone that uses a proxy is forced to do so by company policy requiring all of their web traffic to be snooped, not by choice, with the rare exception of, basically, avoiding such a policy.