Google Web Accelerator Breaks Web Applications
Filed in: Google, Security — May 9th, 2005
Google’s effort to speed the pace of Web browsing quickly aggravated some early users, who say that the software is delivering them Web pages under other users’ logins and breaking Web applications.Google Inc.’s Web Accelerator application, launched as a test on Wednesday, uses a combination of local and server-based caching and preloading of Web pages to more quickly serve Web pages to a user’s browser. Google’s servers, in many ways, act as an intermediary between Web sites and a user’s browser.
But Google’s approach has had some unintended consequences. Google officials Friday confirmed that the company was aware of as many as five sites where Web Accelerator was returning users cached pages under other people’s user names.
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The Google Web Accelerator site has removed the download button and replace with a notice as follow:
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Seems like Google Web Accelerator is a failure… Personally, I have uninstalled it after testing it for few days without much speed improvement and read about many security concerns of it.
Read also: Much Controversy Over Google’s Accelerator
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May 9th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
hehehehehehe
May 9th, 2005 at 2:50 pm
evil laff?
May 9th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
GWA - Worst Piece From Google ?
Google Web Accelerator (GWA), is one of latest release by Google ,but it seem like this is the worst product from Googleyou can find lots of post regarding this through the Technorati and most of them are negative this latest Google’s baby. This is w…
May 9th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
i uninstall it too, found it useless
May 9th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
actually the main reason i didnt installed it, cause here ard my workplace i’ve already use proxy server(squid). the same method(kinda) use by GWA, cached all webpages except secure pages.
//wp oso have cachy thinggy. for fast load.