Google recently released a ‘web accelerator‘. It basically acts as a proxy and uses the Google might to push pages faster at us, among other methods to improve the speed. As with all Google products expectations were high, but, this one has gone horribly wrong. First came the news that Webaccelerator automatically logged you in as someone else on many online forums, then it seemed to wreck web-apps.
But, amidst all the noise, I can confidently say that I don’t know if any of it is true! That’s because I just can’t get the thing to work. There seems to be some problems connecting to the local server. Surprising, because Google Desktop search doesn’t seem to have any problems. Also, after I installed Webaccelerator, GDS started displaying a huge error message about incorrect network settings on startup and quit. Worse still, I lost access to the net, even after uninstalling Webaccelerator. I really don’t know if WA was the culprit, but only a reinstall of windows could fix the problem.
It looks like the Google servers couldn’t handle all those requests, as they’ve pulled WA off the site. Somehow, it seems like Google organised a DDOS attack on itself!
The thing I don’t get about this service is that it claims to improve browsing speeds only if you have a broadband connection. But, shouldn’t it be the other way around, with the service helping out dial-up users?
On an unrelated note, it looks like Google had some major DNS issues and all of it’s sites were offline for around 15 minutes yesterday. So, Google can do wrong…….