The_Contractor - 12:09 am on May 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

I don't think it can be used as any type of general proxy to do any auto site ripping. The best you could do, would be to drive IE as a spider (which is trivial to do at current and has nothing to do with Google).

Uhm...have you ever looked at the plug-ins available for ripping sites from within firefox? They use your IP and UserAgent (unless you change the user-agent), so yes it would allow "very fast" and easy site-ripping behind a proxy.

I'm not trying to spread misinformation, but I fail to see one good point of this "for the user or site owner" - can someone mention one please?

Lemme see - it's meant for broadband user (which most are already able to download at 1-4Mbs). No gain here.

Doesn't work with cookies - there goes affiliate income for some, login info for others, and broken shopping carts for others (or adding products to a cart from prefetch).

Prefetch - Clicks/registers clicks and downloads a page you may not even vist. Great for small PPC or bandwidth for sites not even being visited.

Sorry, but I have yet to see a benefit mentioned?

[edited by: The_Contractor at 12:10 am (utc) on May 5, 2005]