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May 11, 2005
Web Acceleration: Part 4
While at work today I noticed that Google's Web Accelerator has been taken down. I guess hindsight is 20/20 because a lot of people who were extremely excited about this when it came out are now changing their tunes. That's the world though, fickle. You can check out Google's new page where they say they've taken it down because they've reached maximum capacity.
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.
I didn't think Google had a maximum capacity for anything. I saw an article on CNet [news.com.com] linked to over on Lifehacker [lifehacker.com]. Other than that everything's pretty quite about the whole ordeal.
I hope they (Google) retool this thing pretty quickly because the theory of operation is quite sound especially since most web servers don't compress pages before they send them resulting in wasted bandwidth.
Posted by Guy at May 11, 2005 04:50 PM