Web Accelerator

Some early thoughts about Google Web Accelerator.

http://webaccelerator.google.com/

Its scary.
Starts a proxy server , caches the results,collects the user data … non sense.
I'm going to uninstall once I get a feel for it.
Still did not see any improvement in the web speeed(showing 0.0 seconds still).

From LiveHTTPHeaders :

GET /benefit HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:9100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

Response :

HTTP/1.1 200
Expires: 0
Content-Type: text/plain
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

8

0.000000

0

http://localhost:9100/mousehover?url=http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/about.html
http://localhost:9100/is_excluded
http://localhost:9100/beforenavigation
http://localhost:9100/afternavigation?start=269036.043697&done=269037.637784

These are some URLs that are automatically fired.

Google is showing its dominance all over.I just hope this will fall under google's not-so-most-used-apps like deskbar.

Kalyan