Some very scary unintended consequences of using Google Web Accelerator have emerged:GWA's reliance on caching is already showing serious privacy issues, noteably the caching of private login info. People are finding themselves logged in as someone else on pages that…
Month: May 2005
Google Web Accelerator: Google’s Private Web?
Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle (a great blog I recently discovered) adds to the growing concerns with GWA, realizing that Google is essentially privatizing the Web through their vast cache of sites:Google has essentially decided to make "an extra copy" of…
Google Web Accelerator: Pros & Cons
Google Labs released Google Web Accelerator (GWA) today, software you download to your computer which utilizes Google servers as a proxy for web content, delivering the pages to your system more rapidly and making your browsing experience more efficient. From…
How “search” is redefining the Web — and our lives
The Seattle Times had an article this weekend on "How 'search' is redefining the Web — and our lives." It is a well-written piece and provides a succinct history of the search engine industry, but ,as is typical, these kinds…
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