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we all know google is huge and fast right? well if iBurst is giving you trouble, or even if it isn't try googles new web accelerator, it uses cache and compression to serve up cached content faster, plus its all on googles servers so we know its gonna be good. Certainly beats the pants out of WBS's cache system :p

http://webaccelerator.google.com/
 
Ima send them a mail and ask if they can make something which elminates the cap too
 
Pages seem to take longer to open. Was worth a shot.....it might work better for some ppl.
 
P0tenc said:
Pages seem to take longer to open. Was worth a shot.....it might work better for some ppl.
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Yeah, I noticed the same ... guess the caching algorithms (or something) has to run first, and that's why the loading seems slower? :confused:
 
soooo i forget, if were using iburst thats like dial up right? and we cant use this? ;) hehe
 
Hi iBurster Forumites

I have moved the Off Topic posts out of this thread, please try to stick to the topic of the Google Accelerator and how it works / doesn't with iBurst.

Regards

ic.
 
The only thing is there's no REAL privacy policy and now google know peoples downloading habbits. I'm willing to give them the benifit of the doubt since they've never been shady before, but I have a feeling they will use this information for soemthign else as well, perhaps they will use cache from people surfing as a cheap crawler to index little known and rarely linked pages into thier search engine, or who knows, google is pretty creative with this stuff.
 
We trust google with our gmail ... their company motto is "do no Evil" ... while the two founders Sergei and Brin controls ownership of google it will hopefully stay that way

People certainly trust them much more than the chaps from Redmond.
 
This is an absolutely ingenious move by Google. (Accelerator works great for me, btw)

Think about it.
  • Google has to spider the web, to build up their index. Now, with web accelerator, they get YOU to do their spidering FOR them. They can find all the hidden niches on the net that's popular.
  • The bandwidth they use to serve the content to you is actually very little, since it's only html, and embedded graphics. Downloads and such still go directly to the target server, plus everything's compressed.
  • Their 'delta-update' mechanism means that only the changed portions of a page get transmitted to you if you already have a reasonably up-to-date copy (think rsync).
  • They get to see what sites are truly popular, by keeping the logs of your browsing. They can essentially tell if site A is more popular than site B due to the amount of hits they proxied. Finally, google have hit statistics on target sites out there...
This will do wonders for their PageRank algorithm. If one takes the hit popularity of a site, rather than google's current algorithm of "how many sites link to the target" as a measure of popularity and relevance, then their Pagerank can only become much more accurate.

This whole thing will make google's index more accurate, and their results more realistic. Search Engine spammers will be shot in the foot with this thing.

Of course, the downside is that presumably at some time in the future, google will start offering hosting services, and the entire internet will collapse into the google datacenters. Welcome to the internet. Owned and operated by Google (tm).
 
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LOL, yeah I suspect they will use the cache to index pages too, but first I think they need to fine tune it, the software as is now is fantastic but they can't let peoples personal information end up in the google database, that would be bad specially to googles reputation.

They will probably use it to monitor people's browsing habbits for marketing purposes as well.
 
Their policy already indicates that you allow them to temporarily cache your cookies on their end, and that they're allowed to do whatever they want with the URL's you visited. They do claim, however that nothing personally identifiably is stored on their side.

In fact, I'm much happier to use their proxy, than I am to store my email with them, but that's just paranoia. It's not much worse than gmail, or the normal google cookies already sent/set, but it is starting to become a huge bigbrother approach to the net.
 
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