incrediBILL - 1:28 am on May 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

OK, my final ponderings on this issue:

What is their ultimate goal with pre-fetch?

Has anyone considered what reason Google could possibly have for unleashing this pre-fetch menace other than the obvious comments earlier to track site access more closely?

First they announced enabling "Enhanced searching with Firefox":
[webmasterworld.com...]

Now this Web Accellerator release seems designed just to snag the IE crowd for whatever reason they want to be able to shove the technology down everyone's throats and Microsoft IE users were next in line.

Here's the clue on their web site that it's not an optimization technology but a bandwidth hog technology:

Dial-up users may not see much improvement, as Google Web Accelerator is currently optimized to speed up web page loading for broadband connections

Nothing new here, mostly restatement of what's already been covered, that it just doesn't add up to create meaningless technology to solve a problem that doesn't exist [anyone you know perceive broadband slowness as an issue?] and create a bunch of new problems that didn't exist before. Even if your local broadband provider WAS slow due to overloading this will just make it worse, not better.

So WHAT IS THE MOTIVATION of choking the net with more requests and slowing down access to some dynamic sites (now potentially overloaded as you can't cache them and make them work properly) by the very nature of technology designed to make it faster?

There must be more to the story than we're not privvy to at this point as it doesn't pass the sniff test.

[edited by: incrediBILL at 1:51 am (utc) on May 5, 2005]