昨天看到了Google Web Accelerator的出现,今天装了一下,还没什么感觉,大致看了一下GWA帮助中的一些东西.其中讲到了GWA的工作原理是怎么样的:
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.
并且,在涉及隐私方面的时候,Google也说,其实GWA后台起的作用有点类似与ISP,用户在上网的时候会先连接到Google,再通过Google与Internet连接.这就让我联想到了前一段Google购买黑暗光纤的事情,两者联系起来,Google看来要取代将来的ISP的位置了.