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Recently Google
launched a new product and offered it via the corporate website.
The software is
called
Google Web Accelerator and it has caused quite a stir online!
So, just days after
announcing the Google Web Accelerator, it came as no surprise that
Google removed it from their site...
Some have had
security concerns as testers who used
Google
Web Accelerator to browse certain online
forums discovered they were logged in as other users!
Other have been
unhappy with the privacy policy that comes with the software...
"When you use
Google Web Accelerator, Google servers receive and log your page
requests. Page requests and data sent in encrypted form using an
HTTPS connection will not go through Google. It is possible that
some personally identifiable information could be sent to Google, if
the information is sent without using an encrypted (HTTPS)
connection.
To enhance Google Web Accelerator's performance, Google temporarily
caches cookies from third party sites that are used in your Web
requests.
To accelerate delivery of content, Google Web Accelerator retrieves
and caches webpages before you request them. Therefore, your Google
Web Accelerator cache may include copies of webpages you have not
visited."
So now we just have
to wait and see what Google's next move is. |