Googles Web Accelerator = mega bw??

[airdick]

Originally Posted by natalie

I just found this and think it may have repercussions on our bandwidth use! Not positive because I havent read it all yet..

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/29319.htm

If that link doesnt work heres a bit of what its about.. (from webmasterworld)

Google Web Accelerator significantly reduces the time that it takes broadband users to download and view web pages. The Google Web Accelerator appears as a small speedometer in the browser chrome with a cumulative "Time saved" indicator.
Here's how it works. A user downloads and installs the client and begins
browsing the web as she normally would. In the background, the Google Web
Accelerator employs a number of techniques to speed up the delivery of
content to users.

If it goes through all the links on a page and caches the pages that are linked to imagine our bandwidth! There should be a way to block it and we may need to. If you see a big increase in your hits soon this may be the cause. |shocking|

"Google Web Accelerator makes your Internet access go faster by routing your Web surfing through Google's servers"

It's a caching proxy server with some prefeching, right? Seems to me that this will have an overall net effect of saving bandwidth.