DISQUS

I believe that it does speed up browsing a tad.
prefetching is pretty much the only way to accelerate browsing, and google does it pretty well... its not the overall time saved that i care about, in fact i could care less... if you checked back every week you would waste as much time reading your info as you saved that week, if not more. no, its not the overall time, but the sense of speed you get from page to page. in the old days with dial-up, waiting didnt seem like such a big deal... because we all expected to wait. with broadband, browsing speed now strikes that annoying mid-point where its not quite slow enough to acclimate people to waiting for their pages to load, but its also not quite fast enough to provide the instantaneous page-to-page surfing that people expect, and google web accelerator helps come closer to it... you can feel a small difference, ever so slight, and thats what its really about.

and as for the securities issues... in using the internet we put our security at risk constantly, and personally i cant think of a better company to place my trust in than google. google is perhaps the greatest rags-to-riches internet company ever, and for good reason, too. Googles positive stance in the net neutrality issue only solidifies my trust in the company and my need to support them. im afraid your review boils down to little more than a teched-out conspiracy theory...