Google recently announces its Web Accelerator (GWA). This feature is installed on the client browser and fetch website from Google servers using Google Web Accelerator Traffic. If there are any updates available from the source website, you just download the updates. Much like centralized proxy for the whole earth internet users.

Currently, it works only on particular system such as Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ operating system with Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+ browsers. It is only expected to feel the difference on high speed connection like Broadband and not much to expect from dialup connection (or overloaded-shared broadband connection).

Although GWA will not fetch your HTTPS connection, it will ‘sometime’ get your email and password and particular information like your computer configuration and your origin physical location. It is true that some websites even are able to do that, however, as a big company, Google has the capability to do browse-profiling for each internet user. If it’s not now, probably later. To overcome this privacy problem, Google provides privacy policy to ensure your online identity.

One funny thing about the way Google announce this GWA is the picture. What kind of website that takes more than 7.6 minutes to download on a broadband connection?