Google Web Accelerator

It is cool application which boosts your web browsing. It uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Just go to following link and download Google Web Accelerator (size: 1.66MB) and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

Download Google Web Accelerator here

How does Google Web Accelerator work?

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

• Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
• Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
• Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
• Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
• Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
• Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

Advantages:

• Just small downloading file size(1.66MB)
• It occupies less disk space (8.4MB)
• It increases your browsing speed
• It works with Internet Explorer and Firefox easily.
• You can manually settings to 127.0.0.1:9100 as proxy with any browser and use it.
• You can easily activate and deactivate it.
• You can bypass specific site from this application and don't accelerate it.

Disadvantages:

• It doesn't work with Dial-up connections like it does with broadband connections.
• It doesn't speedup encrypted and HTTPS pages.
• It tracks your surfing habit easily.
• It works as partially anonymous.
• You cannot stop it for particular web browser like either Internet Explorer or Firefox. It stops for all.

System Requirements:

• Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+
• Internet Explorer 5.5+
• Firefox 1.0+