encyclo - 1:48 am on May 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

I don't do Windows so I can't test this. It looks like a transparent proxy server run on port 9100. From the help description, it pushes all your HTTP requests through Google servers, which are using a combination of cached pages and pre-fetching combined with data compression (gzip?) to help avoid delays. Much as I enjoy a good lynching of an evening, at a first glance there's not much going on here which could be seen as sinister other than the same pre-fetch debate already going on for the last couple of weeks.

A few random questions:

- Are the cached pages the same as those displayed in the serps under the cache link?
- Does the meta noarchive tag have any influence?
- Are all pre-fetch requests still using the special header?

For the program itself:

- is the accelerator cache in a readable state by other programs, ie.
- Is it in text or binary format?
- Can Google Desktop Search read it?