It was discovered that Google Web Accelerator had a tendency to prevent YouTube videos from playing, instead displaying an error message stating that the video was no longer available.[citation needed]
Google Web Accelerator sent requests for web pages, except for secure web pages (HTTPS), to Google, which logged these requests. Some web pages embedded personal information in these page requests.
Google received and temporarily cached cookie data that the user's computer sent with webpage requests in order to improve performance.
Google Web Accelerator crawled every web page it came across, leading it to inadvertently deleting web pages when it indiscriminately prefetched links.[2]
In order to speed up delivery of content, Google Web Accelerator sometimes retrieved webpage content that the user did not request and stored it in the Google Web Accelerator cache.[3] Cached versions of web pages that were created when one user was logged in were sometimes served to other users, allowing them to see private account information.[2]
Some privacy experts expressed concern that Google could "combine personal and clickstream data with existing search history data contained in Google's own cookie to create a far-reaching profile" on users.[4]
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^ ab"Google Web Accelerator Draws Concern". BetaNews. 2005-05-06. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
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^Olsen, Stefanie (May 11, 2005). "FAQ: Hard facts about Google's Web Accelerator".
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google, accelerator, this, article, multiple, issues, please, help, improve, discuss, these, issues, talk, page, learn, when, remove, these, template, messages, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, ad. This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Google Web Accelerator news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources October 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Google Web Accelerator was a web accelerator produced by Google It used client software installed on the user s computer as well as data caching on Google s servers to speed up page load times by means of data compression prefetching of content and sharing cached data between users The beta released on May 4 2005 works with Mozilla Firefox 1 0 and Internet Explorer 5 5 on Windows 2000 SP3 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines It was discontinued in October 2008 1 Google WebInitial releaseMay 4 2005 2005 05 04 Final release0 2 70 January 20 2008 2008 01 20 Operating systemMicrosoft WindowsWebsitewebaccelerator google comBugs and privacy issues editIt was discovered that Google Web Accelerator had a tendency to prevent YouTube videos from playing instead displaying an error message stating that the video was no longer available citation needed Google Web Accelerator sent requests for web pages except for secure web pages HTTPS to Google which logged these requests Some web pages embedded personal information in these page requests Google received and temporarily cached cookie data that the user s computer sent with webpage requests in order to improve performance Google Web Accelerator crawled every web page it came across leading it to inadvertently deleting web pages when it indiscriminately prefetched links 2 In order to speed up delivery of content Google Web Accelerator sometimes retrieved webpage content that the user did not request and stored it in the Google Web Accelerator cache 3 Cached versions of web pages that were created when one user was logged in were sometimes served to other users allowing them to see private account information 2 Some privacy experts expressed concern that Google could combine personal and clickstream data with existing search history data contained in Google s own cookie to create a far reaching profile on users 4 Related editGoogle Search Opera TurboReferences edit Google Web Accelerator Discontinued Jan 30 2009 Retrieved Sep 7 2018 a b Google Web Accelerator Draws Concern BetaNews 2005 05 06 Retrieved 2020 04 26 Google Web Accelerator Archived from the original on 2005 05 05 Retrieved 2005 05 05 Olsen Stefanie May 11 2005 FAQ Hard facts about Google s Web Accelerator Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Google Web Accelerator amp oldid 1186361003, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
