Google has released a curios tool, Google Web
Accelerator, an application that uses the power of Google's
global computer network to make web pages load faster.
In summary, Google Web Accelerator works
by requesting web pages from a dedicated Google cache (different from the normal
cache used by the search engine) and by prefetching pages. The tool is able to
check your mouse movements and download pages before you click on the link
(note that it only downloads the updates to pages, not the whole page).
Only tests could say if this tool really speed up your surfing experience,
but I think that in the next day (when the tool become popular) we'll see some
privacy concerns also here, exactly like Gmail (all your traffic will pass from
Google's servers).
Now a personal question... why Google launch this tool? A piece for a more
ambitious project or only a toys for surfers?