Google suspends downloads of Google Web Accelerator
May 12, 2005 1:34 AM
Just days after announcing the Google Web "Accelerator" (GWA), Google removed it from their site.
From Ars Technica:
This news was not greeted with universal praise. Some critics questioned the need for such a tool, given the ever increasing speeds of broadband. Cynics suggested that this was simply a marketing tool for Google. Loudest of all, though, have been the security concerns. Testers who used GWA to browse certain forums discovered they were logged in as other users. Despite its friendly image, many are growing uneasy at the level of data gathering Google has at its disposal, and that capacity would expand by an order of magnitude with the widespread use of GWA.
Full Article... [Ars Technica]
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Posted June 4, 2005 12:53 AM
Not a bad piece of software...you can still get it at...
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