The Google Empire
So Google now has a web accelerator and a they also allow you to keep a history of your web searches.
Now okay, I can see where the search history might be useful, but in all honesty, these days I just bookmark any links I want to look at later. It’s easy, create a new bookmark folder in your favourite browser for bookmarks to read later.
But then, sometimes you don’t know that you wanted to bookmark that particular link.
With the Web Accelerator, my first thought was “what the?”.
Google’s just trying to do everything now days it seems.
Not saying they shouldn’t be capitalising on their brand name and expanding into areas that you wouldn’t think they would and doing quite well in them. Well done to them though.
I just don’t agree with the web accelerator. It doesn’t sit well with me. Think about it carefully before you decide whether or not to use it. Whether or not you really need it. Without having used it, I can’t say how good it is/is not.
I’m fairly happy with my web browsing speed right now. It’s much faster than when I was using dialup. So i’m definately not complaining.
Remember this, everything goes through Google’s networks. It’s up to you whether or not you use it.
What Google does with this cached data, I don’t know. Only Google does.
Perhaps they will utilise frequently requested websites to readjust Google Page Rank for websites?
That’s only speculation though, but it is definately a possibility.
Here is one view of it on BoingBoing.net.
You know, this is probably a good way for blog comment spammers to get past IP bans on their own IPs.
As well as web forum trolls.
Though that’s not to say they can’t use other anonymous web proxies out there. Now that’s always a pain in the neck for admins… As an admin sometimes you don’t want to ban users in your web forums, but due to excessive bad behaviour or other, you feel there is the need to do so, but they come back, and with a brand new IP address.
At one point in time, when there was a mass influx of blog comment spam, I started to add various IP addresses into the ban list, as well as a few bizarre User Agents that are generally associated with those spam messages.
So perhaps I might have to just block all users coming to my blog via the Google networks. I won’t do it now, but if it comes to it, I definately won’t hesistate to do so. I do wonder how Google intends to block against the misusage of its’ networks for spamming or other tasks that they shouldn’t be?
Wonder if Google has an easy way for administrators to restrict their pages/domains from being “cached” in the Google network so it causes the users of the web accelerator to connect directly to the website to retrieve the data.
That’d be interesting, and that’d be a good thing for some websites where no HTTPS is being used to restrict the access from a few web pages. Like when you login to your blog script admin pages. Those are definately web pages you don’t want cached on Google’s servers.
Hopefully, they do something which allows us to say “hey google, these pages must not be cached EVER!”
As I said, since I don’t need it, I simply won’t use it. The search history is something I don’t have a need for either, so i’m not going to use it.