Comments on: Google Web Accelerator and Page Rank?

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Sun, 15 May 2005 21:30:01 +0000

Big problem for WordPress bloggers – Web Accelerator “prefetches” all your “delete” links while you’re working in the “manage” page. It ignores the javascript confirmations, so it can wipe out your blog.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/33103
Darren, I emailed you on this also, because you may want to put it on the front page.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Fri, 06 May 2005 01:03:45 +0000

Manual trackback. :o)

Google’s loosing it’s shining touch very quickly this year.
“Sometimes articles need a bit longer to sink in my brain and raise the alarm, but of course if Darren blogs about it, it has to be important ;o) The new Google ‘feature’ is here. And once again this year, Google manages it to disappoint. ”

http://blogpraxis.de/archive/2005/05/06/googles_loosing_its_shining_to

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Fri, 06 May 2005 00:10:09 +0000

If this is what they are up to, they need to improve their product first or their only going to get numbers from people who are gullible enough to believe they are saving time, just because the little icon says they are. I ran it for about an hour and got tired of the proxy server refusing my requests. Bloglines was very spotty and would completely lock up with the accelerator on. They claimed ot have saved me 2.9 minutes, but that doesn’t include the time they cost me as I waited for websites that never came up.

By: K

Thu, 05 May 2005 15:41:51 +0000

No offense, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is what Google is doing. After blogging for a few weeks, my opinion of Google has changed drastically and the not be evil mantra in some respects seems like crap.

Some might say this is merely par for the course business tactics, I could accept that if the company didn’t try to be so high minded.

All in all, I don’t know how this could help make PageRank more accurate as it seems it would only cover a small percentage of users.