Comments on: Google Web Accelerator Dumbness…. take three http://gigaom.com/2005/05/12/google-puts-brakes-on-maxed-out-web-accelerator-may-11-2005/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: pb http://gigaom.com/2005/05/12/google-puts-brakes-on-maxed-out-web-accelerator-may-11-2005/#comment-11650 pb Thu, 12 May 2005 20:24:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/12/google-puts-brakes-on-maxed-out-web-accelerator-may-11-2005/#comment-11650 <p>It's not a question of bandwidth. It's latency and GWA can speed that up in many situations, including broadband.</p> It’s not a question of bandwidth. It’s latency and GWA can speed that up in many situations, including broadband.

]]> By: Thomas Hawk http://gigaom.com/2005/05/12/google-puts-brakes-on-maxed-out-web-accelerator-may-11-2005/#comment-11649 Thomas Hawk Thu, 12 May 2005 17:15:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/12/google-puts-brakes-on-maxed-out-web-accelerator-may-11-2005/#comment-11649 Om,

Why is it that if an accelerator doesn’t matter on a broadband connection that I saved an hour last week using the Google Accelerator on a broadband line? This seems kind of meaningful to me in terms of personal productivity. Both at work and at home I have consistently saved time.

I have not seen anyone yet challenge the “time saved” concept of the accelerator. This “time savedâ€? feature seems to be a smart marketing move on the part of Google to prove to people that they are in fact saving time even on a broadband connection.

Granted, I’m a bit obsessive about surfing the net (in order to save an hour I viewed over 3,000 pages), but for someone like me who is a heavy internet user, the Accelerator seems to make sense.

What are your thoughts on this time saved?

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