] The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content
] behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages
] loading faster (since they've already been
] pre-loaded behind the scenes). Here's the problem:
] Google is essentially clicking every link on the page
] including links like "delete this" or "cancel that."

What a mess. Is anyone on MemeStreams actually using this thing? Maybe you don't mind if Google now has ALL of your internet traffic logged forever, but you probably ought to mind if it goes through and cleans out your MemeStreams or webmail account. I cannot imagine that this thing is THAT much faster.

Lauren Weinstein put it eloquently:

Google is smiling their way into becoming -- probably more through a
bizarre combination of hubris and naivete than purposeful intentions
-- a one-stop surveillance "shopping center" for every lawyer,
police agency, district attorney, government agency, and so on who
wants to know what people are doing on the Internet.

Of course, Lauren Weinstein is one of those people who thinks you should be forced to make your home phone number a matter of public record in order to have a domain name.

You can't win...

Google Web Accelerator: Hey, not so fast - an alert for web app designers - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)