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Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by abraham »

jshb wrote: post #27
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not rendering it (I would image at least), I don't see this as a security concern, do you?

I could care little about privacy concern, but I would rather wait a couple of seconds than waste bandwidth downloading pages that I would most likely never look at. Also from web developer point of view, I would like to see how any given site loads under standard use case anyway.

Google is only preloading the top result when it is confident the top result is what you are looking for. If Google does a good enough job then only a small % of preloads will go unviewed.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by tga »

jarin wrote: post #24
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts as well, but who uses for web server visit history for legal prosecution these days? What is that proof of or evidence used for?

"On November 26, 2008, officials released 700 pages of documents related to the Anthony investigation, which included evidence of Google searches of the terms "neck breaking," "how to make chloroform," and "death" on Casey Anthony's home computer." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony It doesn't seem too out of left field that investigators would use your browser history as well.

The searches themselves, already provided by Google, combined with actually continuing to some of the results, also logged by Google, are already incriminating enough. The only thing you could claim is that ISP traffic logs couldn't and wouldn't make a difference between you and Chrome loading pages, but that didn't even come into play in the case you quote.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by jshb »

abraham wrote: post #31
jshb wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could care little about privacy concern, but I would rather wait a couple of seconds than waste bandwidth downloading pages that I would most likely never look at. Also from web developer point of view, I would like to see how any given site loads under standard use case anyway.

Google is only preloading the top result when it is confident the top result is what you are looking for. If Google does a good enough job then only a small % of preloads will go unviewed.

Google wants to DDOS eHow and ExpertExchange?

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by NaOH »

abraham wrote: post #28
hardy263 wrote: post #22

Wouldn't this be a crazy bandwidth hog? If I typed in multiple search terms, and didn't load any of my results, it would have automatically downloaded everything for no reason.

In Google's own words they only preload the top result if they are confident it is what you are looking for. If they pull it off there will be negligible amount of unused preloaded pages.

Shouldn't the top result inherently represent what Google thinks is what I want? Or is there some secondary "confidence" component to the presumed efficacy of a top result?

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by abraham »

NaOH wrote: post #34
abraham wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Google's own words they only preload the top result if they are confident it is what you are looking for. If they pull it off there will be negligible amount of unused preloaded pages.

Shouldn't the top result inherently represent what Google thinks is what I want? Or is there some secondary "confidence" component to the presumed efficacy of a top result?

As I understand there is a secondary confidence score. Sometimes there just aren't any good results to show.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by kasmura »

I first thought that this was something only implemented in Chrome for Google, but I then saw that this is somehow a HTML feature that they will also add to Google Search.

I don't like if Google uses its own browser to give their sites features, that could not be implemented without - website's features should only be made from source code on the server. In my opinion.

This is core innovation from Google - but I see the problem with incorrect website visitors. It think Chrome when prefetching the pages, should send some information with the request that the request is a prefetch.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by Joakal »

linc01n wrote: post #25
hardy263 wrote: post #22

Wouldn't this be a crazy bandwidth hog? If I typed in multiple search terms, and didn't load any of my results, it would have automatically downloaded everything for no reason.

Web owners need to pay for bandwidth of unvisited visitors(strange words LOL) and I am sure there will be lots of them.

It's called a hotlink. Web owners have issues with people hotlinking certain content; typically images, css and js though.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by Joakal »

dylan62 wrote: post #30

Hasn't Firefox supported this for years? https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Link_prefetching_FAQ

That is more friendly for web owners. Control over bandwidth.

Google's prefetching is instant search list with the most likely result being automatically be loaded in the background before the user clicks on it.

Web owner nightmare: Having a common irrelevant keyword that means most of the world downloads the content without viewing the page.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by [deleted] »

piotrSikora wrote: post #26

This is really bad news for website owners... We'll see increased (sometimes by order of magnitude) number of page views and bandwidth usage, without increase in the number of real visitors. Same thing happened with DNS when Google enabled DNS pre-fetching in Chrome.

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