Read Latest Entries..: (Post #19) by Cassandra on Nov 10 2005, 02:32 AM. (Line Breaks Removed)
QUOTE(Jguy101 @ Nov 8 2005, 06:06 AM)Ugh...the whole thing is just stupid. Cacheing cookies? Such a security threat...Why is it a security threat? I was under the impression that cookies can be read only by the site which placed them in the first place. Why should they be more of a threat if they are cached (in RAM, I guess you mean) than if they are on your hard disk?... read more.
Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. It is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.
Google Web Accelerator uses various methods such those stated below to improve the loading time of web pages. •Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic. •Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible. (And giving you access to other people's accounts...) •Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it. (Through RSS feeds I think) •Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance. •Managing/Optimizing your Internet connection to reduce delays. •Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
Please take note that this program is still in beta test mode and there have been concerns about this product leaving you logged into sites as other users since it automatically stores and updates the content of pages accessed through it. The same thing happened to me when I visited the phpbb2 community forum.
Notice from PC Astray:
For your information, I did not just Copy & Paste this entire post and at least I made an effort to add in my opinions...No offense but I do not see the reason for doing this when I can see lots of people doing the same.
I downloaded it and tried it, but my pages are really doing the opposite of loading faster, perhaps I have a too fast internet connection, so it won't make any difference.
I wonder why it doesn't work with my firefox... When I click "Start Google Web Accelerator", it just stays at the next screen forever. Does it work for any of you with firefox out there?
I have a relatively fast connection speed anyway, but I will probably check out this accelerator later on tonight anyways.
I primarily use Firefox. Another user says that they have been experiencing difficulties when coupling this thing with Firefox?
Oh well. We will see. Either way, it is still pretty awesome. I worry in a couple years when Google has the consumers cornered with its innovations, will it suddenly start charging for all its monopolies? It has got an awesome hold on mail services right now, and I would not be surprised if they took over on web acceleration and began releasing website hosting as well. O:
System Requirements Operating System: Win XP or Win 2000 SP3+ Browser: IE 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+ Availability: For users in North America and Europe (during beta testing phase)
doesnt work with linux ? im quite surprised, it jus looks like a suped up proxie to me, couldnt be that difficult to port to linux.
to pc_astray: i sent you a pm... No problem with you post, its just that the rules say you should only get extra hosting credits for things you write yourself. As you forgot to use quote tags, the system will have given you too many hosting credits. the note i posted is not aimed at you, its to stop other mods from re- adjusting your credits again.
sorry for the mis-understanding.
Ohh, and if you catch other people plageriseing material, please hit the report button under the post. i guarantee that a moderator will take a look.
qwijibow, maybe you could help PC Ashtray add in some quote tags, then remove those notices? They are quite hideous. I'm sure it'd fix the problem after you add in the quotes, and reduce part of the credits.
Back on topic: I don't know why, but the Google Web Accelerator seems to work fine now... But it doesn't seem to help a lot. At least not for the sites I go to.
alright, i ran a quick test with this little google gadget and here's what i got...
First I put up many large applications so that i can see an obvious difference in the speeds of webpages. Than I took out my handy dandy stopwatch (don't trust that default timer google provides) and timed the pages. As far as I can tell, the difference in my firefox didn't change at all. Internet Explorer, however, improved DRASTICALLY. In fact, it's much faster than firefox now...loading images and everything. Firefox with and without the "web accelorator" took about 13 seconds to open the somewhat large site. (after cleaning up the cache, history, etc.) Internet Explorer finished the file in 6 seconds with the accelerator.
Some in the end, i guess i conclude (at least for my computer), that this web accelerator is a beast with IE but isn't worth it if you plan on using firefox. At least for now...i'm sure with a few new upgrades, google's little application will become more efficient...hopefully...
another google application in beta mode! funny that no one really needs to make their web surfing a little faster, as there are fast internet speeds like broadband.
maybe in my theory that its just a gimmick on the browser to log the users visited websites and things like that to make their search engine bigger and wider with more results on searches on unknown websites that are not listed. making the internet a smaller space with only a search box to narrow it down.
Google has stopped allowing downloads of its Web Accelerator software, just days after it began offering the product.
Google cited capacity as the reason for putting the brake on downloads of Accelerator, which is designed to speed the delivery of Web pages. A message on the site said the company has reached its "maximum capacity of users and (we) are actively working to increase the number of users we can support."
A Google representative denied on Wednesday that the removal of the tool was connected to the security fears. "It is a limited beta," he said, "and we reached the capacity of users."
The end of Google Web Accelerator? I hope not but I seriously doubt that they have reached thei maximium capacity of user support especially when their GMail email service has its inbox growing every second for every user! My point is that this is just an excuse to stop any more downloads and Google has just put it in a nicer way to hear but after all, it's still in beta testing stage so there's nothing more we can comment on it. What do you all think?
Ugh...the whole thing is just stupid. Cacheing cookies? Such a security threat...
Why is it a security threat? I was under the impression that cookies can be read only by the site which placed them in the first place. Why should they be more of a threat if they are cached (in RAM, I guess you mean) than if they are on your hard disk?
another google application in beta mode! funny that no one really needs to make their web surfing a little faster, as there are fast internet speeds like broadband.
Actually, there are still plenty of regions - even here in America - where dial-up is the only service available. That's what I use every time I go home on break from school. It drives my family crazy - to the point where they will actually call me on my cell phone and say, "Hey, could you jump online and look this up for me?" because my connection is so much faster.
So ... I think that Google might be thinking of those people when they came up with this accelerator. Or the people who are still using older computer systems.
The end of Google Web Accelerator? I hope not but I seriously doubt that they have reached thei maximium capacity of user support especially when their GMail email service has its inbox growing every second for every user! My point is that this is just an excuse to stop any more downloads and Google has just put it in a nicer way to hear but after all, it's still in beta testing stage so there's nothing more we can comment on it. What do you all think?
I think the story is false or it was temporary and they have expanded it. I just downloaded it.
ya i downloaded this a while ago and it says its saving me like 10 seconds perpage and im noticing that pages are loading a bit faster this may be beta but i think its pretty cool
Google had just published another new service, it is called google web accelerator, it's an
accelerator for your web surfing, so you can save time surfing the internet, it looks a very great
service when you look at it generally, but for the first time google made a very bad service, it
does nothing new than the old accelerators, to make it appears like a very good brand service they
put a warning that this service is only for broadband ADSL internet connections, not for dialup
internet connections, as they didn't test it for dialup, in fact i did, i tested it...
One of the most popular Google programs, and maybe one of the most dangerous, Google Earth, is
getting a new version. What's more, this time it is released for all supported operating system
simultaneously. You can download it here . Besides various OS support, it is also multilingual
with French, German, Spanish and Italian now supported. Also, these countries are now more detailed
in Google Earth and advanced search is now available. Next, Google has increased the percentage of
the land covered with high resolution images. It is now 20%, whereas the other 80% ...
Just kidding, they do have money /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0"
alt="smile.gif" /> But someone could that they don't. Here's why. The incident happened in
Brazil. The Google owners were having some business meeting with the local Google group, but they
were also relaxing on the sandy beaches. But something went wrong when they went to a restaurant.
The restaurant was for rather rich people, since it was quite expensive. After finishing the dinner,
the Google owners wanted to pay, but their credit cars got rejected! /biggrin.gi...
After a LONG wait, Google finally has managed to round-up it's online office suite by adding in
a basic Presentation creator. However, contrary to all earlier speculations - they haven't named
it Presently . Rather this new app doesn't have any distinct name at all other than being
refered to as Google Presentation. Features Microsoft PowerPoint files less than 10 MB can be
imported and exports take the shape of HTML files with images. Themes and layouts of slides can be
modified - but there aren't too many available options. As it is with Google D...
Just when you thought that Google is running out of ideas for their products, something unexpected
was introduced - a new search engine! I am sure everyone is confused - why would Google make such a
move when they already have the most popular search engine in the world (Yahoo! fans, face the
truth)? The answer is actually quite simple - but this is just my opinion - innovation. Even though
it is so widely used, we must admin that Google's search engine is a bit old-fashioned.
Unfortunately, they can't just upgrade it all of a sudden, as I am sure it would annoy...
Newspaper bloopers can be real funny, but I haven't seen one of the likes of this in ages...
The Nation , one of leading English dailies of Thailand reported today that ... Google Sky
launches Bobby Johnson, technology correspondent. Apparently, The Nation was supposed to run
this syndicated story on the launch of Google Sky, written by Bobby Johnson. Seems like they were
mighty impressed with Johnson and decided to launch him instead /biggrin.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> Here's a screenshot...
Inci...
Im not too sure if this can be posted here, but its news to me! anyway, If you go to google maps and
search for directions from New York to Paris, you get a rather interesting route. Go to the link
below and look at step 23 of the route! New York, New York to Paris,France made me laugh! -jimmy...
QUOTE Ventures into online machine based translations haven't met with much success so far -
at least not to a degree that can be called phenomenal. While smaller words / phrases / sentences
translate fine, the translator engines perform rather pathetically when it comes to large chunks of
text. Translation engines have been around since the early 90's, when AltaVista came out with
its famous Babelfish . In general, the online translators are pretty good and are able to convey
the essence of the translated text. However, translator engines fair miserably ...
I don't know if this News has already come up on this forum...
http://www.informationweek.com/management/...cleID=196701966 Having a search engine where "the
people" contribute, is definitely a good idea. No doubt Wikipedia has changed the way people access
information. Will this Wikiasari be able to change the way people search? ...
Some of you like myself swear by google, since we cannot imagine living without google search.
However some of the discussions on net has made me thinking over an important issue. Will Google
control too much of our lives ? here are the links which discusses an important point on
google's future plans ... Google wants to be YOUR Internet. Google becomes domain name
seller A Google OS by 2010 Google's Sinister(?) Plans GoogleOS Scenarios Let me
add, google has already hired top brains for its (secret project), headed by Robert Pike. It coul...
Guys... you HAVE to try this service and see for youself. It's simply terrific. I'll quote
my review on it from ChaosLab . QUOTE(Chaos Laboratory) How would you like to be able to
create new events in your Google Calendar , write new posts on your blog hosted on Blogger ,
Typepad or Wordpress or create reminders , to-do's and notes without ever firing up
your browser? That too all this through the familiar environment of you favourite Instant
Messenger, be it Yahoo! , GTalk or MSN ? Look no further cause Imified has bro...
Google's at it again and this time with a much-needed patent search engine. It sports the same
minimalistic interface that's a trademark of Google and allows you to perform fulltext searches
on a database of over 7 million patents and view the details of each patent along with all the
drawings / sketches. The scanned pages of the original patents are displayed in a PDF-like format
with the ability to zoom in/out Apparently it uses the same underlying technology as Google Book
Search. For those who've cracked their skulls over the notorious USPTO search...
Well, well, well. It looks like Yahoo and IBM want a piece out the Google search empire. The two
are reportly teaming up in a joint venture to offer a free data search tool that will be geared
towards businesses that offer better Yahoo search results. The search product should be a huuuge
success since IBM already sells a business focused search product called OmniFind that allows
businesses to search through internal documents. You couple this with the Yahoo search platform and
wallah! Better search results! Check out the link below to read the article. Its really ...
FINALLY! Finally Google released Google Earth for Linux. Now, we don't need to run it over WINE.
Google Earth uses QT and OpenGL as renderers, so you do need those driver and toolkit.
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html It is currently in beta as part of the 4th version.
xboxrulz...
Try this link for a satellite view of the World Trade Center site, with map superimposed, for
example: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.036764,-...9&z=1&t=h&hl=en I tried to locate "high
knob, virginia" and bizarrely got a shot of coastal California. I tried again with "norton,
virginia" and was able to sidle over to High Knob. Another Google service I just learned about is
scholar.google.com. I ran a search on " java eclipse" and got about 3000 hits, "java beans", about
8000, "css style sheet" -- about 1800. The results come from scholarly and professional jour...
EDIT: My apologies, the title should be "firefox" not "firefo". The X key on my keyboard is tricky
and sometimes it takes a while for X to show up. My Firefox just upgraded to Beta 2 and since Beta
1, it has been greatly improved! A new theme has been made to replace the older default theme and it
comes with a new security feature where it checks sites you visit against possible known phishing
sites and will warn you. One bug I noticed is that it likes to decrease page font size (Ctrl+-) on
it's own sometimes. Also, another cool feature is that when you close ...
I turned on the news this morning, and heard about the United States Government wants Google to turn
over it's search records. I'm sure you all know, but in case you've been living in a
cave for quite some time Google is an internet giant with a number of various internet services
offered, the service in question its massive web-search database that gets millions if not billions
of searches a day making it the largest AND most profitable search engine ever. The government went
to Google and asked them to give them their database records of all searches mad...
Google has just acquired YouTube.com website: The founders of YouTube posted a video (what else?)
where they talk about the acquisition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVxQ_3Ejkg Check out the
grins on these guys!...
windows Live Beta Microsoft corporation introduced a new product windows Live Beta is a Web
portal with a "Sidebar" navigation system it is is a new set of Internet software and services you
can search the web, news,images,RSS feeds,search your location, connect with people, you can create
your own directory and homepage ; Windows Live Messenger; Windows Live Messenger will be the next-
generation MSN Messenger. and more.... click below link to go to windows Live Beta (Live)
www.live.com...
Hi all.. Check this out: www.writely.com Its a new service from Google for simple and secure
document colloboration and publishing product! I can call it as online Word Processor which is
rocking in its Beta time itself! /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0"
alt="biggrin.gif" /> They wil aslo provide some mal address to which you can send documents
directly! You can upload or create new from the sitre itself! /cool.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> - Each attached document
will be converted...
Hi guys, I came across this site called Writely - which offers you an online browser-based
Word Processor , quite similar to what Microsoft is trying to offer in it's Windows Live. What
suddenly caught my notice was this one single line right below their site logo that says - QUOTE
The Web Word Processor ...that's now part of Google. Digging
further I came upon this article at Red Herring describing Google's buyout of this company
and the subsequent assimilation of their software into the Google system.. My guess is...
Google's feed reader has undergone a major facelift. Thank God that the developers realised
that the old scrollable interface just wasn't practical enough for users with lots of feeds.
Categorization has always been a requirement to handle feed overload. New features: * Expanded
view and list view (similar to Gmail, list view shows only the title and a small snippet, while the
expanded view shows the entire post) * Simplified sharing functionality (just click on the share
link, and add snippets from blog posts to a public page. You can share that page with yo...
Well, today as I turned on my PHP Designer 2005 editor, it said that an update is available and I
thought to check it out and found out that PHP Designer 2006 final beta is out, so I downloaded it
and installed. It seems to have a different interface and a bit faster and some more features, I
don't really think that it is a superb editor, but I did not find anything better on windows and
got used to it. QUOTE PHP Designer 2006 Final Beta PHP DESIGNER is a powerful freeware IDE for
coding PHP for both professional and novice alike. Designed to help acceleratin...
Google Image Labeler
- A new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random i (11)
A new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the
quality of Google's image search results. How does it work? You'll be randomly
paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your
partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to
describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's label, you'll earn some
points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can exp...
Microsoft Live Mesenger 8 BETA and Yahoo Messenger 8 with Voice BETA are now allowing users to
add contacts from each others' service. That means a user of MSN messenger or Windows Live
Messenger 8 BETA as it's called now can add, view status, send an instant message, include
emoticons and send nudges/buzzes to contacts who are using Yahoo Messenger. As of now, you
can't send or share files, view common backgrounds, winks and other more complex actions between
the two services. The same also applies to users of Yahoo Messenger with Voice 8 - they can ad...
Firefox Bon Echo - the next step in the Firefox roadmap has been upgraded and released to the
general public for BETA testing as Firefox 2.0 BETA 1. Downloads for Windows, Linux i686, Mac OS X
and other builds are also available in multiple languages. Download Page NEW FEATURES *
Built in Phishing Protection - also allows users to use a custom block list or one form Google.
More details here . * Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for
Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com * Changes to tabbed browsing behavior - A close b...
ATTENTION ALL GAMERS and other beta testers, I saw when I was going and using VB8 Express, you
recieved rewards, like icons, an e-book, etc, but I also saw on the 'Other Betas' Part,
Microst was letting you test games for them. So I thought I'd post it here. Try it out! Register
for an Express program and go to Claim rewards and then on the menu on the right click 'Other
Betas' and try betas of Office 2007, Game Studios and more! /biggrin.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> Enjoy, souradipm...
Google's released 4 new search related products as mentioned in this article in InformationWeek.
QUOTE Google today introduced four new search products and promised to operate with more
transparency. Before a few dozen journalists from around the world gathered for Google Press Day
2006, company executives offered a broad overview of the search giant's future direction,
reiterated its focus on search, and spoke of plans to open up. Ironically, the wireless network that
Google had set up for guests was down at the time. "The Google story is getting more c...
Microsoft has released into limited BETA testing the upcoming replacement to the current free email
/ news client - Outlook Express 6. It's called Windows Live™ Mail Desktop Beta and is designed
to provide a seamless experience between offline email management and the new Live™ family of
services. Even though the upcoming Windows Vista has an existing email client built into the OS
called (what else?) Windows Mail , this client is designed to bring a user's email / contacts
from Hotmail or MSN / IE7 news feeds and even WebSearch all in to one UI. Here'...
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doesnt work with linux ? 
