So the Accelerator tool is already gone? A limited test beta? Hm.
From CNET News.com: “The software was launched Thursday but within a day was causing concern among people when it transpired that the software cached more data than many people felt comfortable with, enabling individuals in some cases to log onto secure online pages of others.
Accelerator, which was released in beta, is set up to automatically work with Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once it has been downloaded. The service stores copies of sites frequently accessed by individual PCs and automatically retrieves new data from those pages, so that a Web browser needs to process only updates to those sites when asked to load them. It can also automatically ‘pre-fetch’ frequently used Web sites before a person downloads it.”
I don’t know. On the surface it seems like a good reason to stop a beta, especially if it’s “full”, even though I don’t recall mention that there was going to be a capacity issue.
Not to say that there is something rotten in Denmark. Just to say that something’s just not quite right. On the other hand, of course, Google has the right to pull a beta or decide it’s over whenever it pleases.
Maybe if they open it back up, they can do something on the server side that would help people who are still struggling with dial-up. Those of us paying for broadband shouldn’t need much help… if a page takes that long to load on a high-speed connection, I’ll either access it with images off or go somewhere else.
