Google has introduced its new Web Accelerator beta, which is supposed to “help web pages show up in a snap.” Designed for DSL and Cable users, this new product is supposed to make results appear even more quickly. Sorry, 56K modem users.
Unfortunately, the beta has now been closed to the public. This posting appears on the Google site, “Thank you for your interest in Google Web Accelerator. We have currently reached our maximum capacity of users and are actively working to increase the number of users we can support.” Now, this could be taken at face value or mean any number of things including some buggy-ness or potential security problems involving the display of private password-protected pages as have been previously reported. Anytime Google introduces any new product, a controversy is sure to follow and this is no different. This will all shake out, though.
No matter what, it is good to see Google taking steps to make the user’s experience a faster one. If “Home Improvement” host Tim Allen were an Internet junkie, he would relish the faster experience that Google is delivering with a grunt and some verbiage like “more power, more speed.”
Once the controversy is resolved and the bugs are worked out, it will be interesting to see if the new Google Web Accelerator picks up speed or simply coasts to the shoulder and calls for road service.
