Google Web Accelerator - friend or foe?

Think · Post by **Think** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:28 pm

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.” And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations. So, if you have a “Are you sure you want to delete this?” Javascript confirmation behind that “delete” link, Google ignores it and performs the action anyway.

Any thoughts?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:33 pm

Or.

Not into proxy stuff.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:05 pm

I haven't heard about this, but you can easily cache the linked pages without submitting form data.

As for the 'are you sure' clicks, I doubt this, but it would depend on how the page was written - you don't get alert boxes twice on teh same event.

What is your source?

http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html