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June 14, 2005
Unintended Consequences of Google Pre-fetch
[O'Reilly Radar] By tim Lauren Weinstein's posting today on Dave Farber's IP list argues that Google's recent decision to pre-fetch the top search results for visitors...
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Joi.ito.com] Joi Ito's Web: Google sending prefetch cookies: Since Girl Scouts did not have a sponsored link- I realised it must only be the top link that sets a cookie. It turned out that Mozilla browsers (that includes firefox) and Google have both enabled prefetch- although it would seem that Google only recently enabled it- as this is a new occurrence. I always verify the setting of cookies- so this makes every google search into an annoying cookie refusal time waste.
[Michaelefford.com.au] Michael Efford :: {Digital Designer} :: Journal: I discovered tonight that the Mozilla family of browers has implemented a prefetch function which allows web developers to specify which pages they want prefetched by adding the following code to the head of the html:
[Google.blognewschannel.com] » 2005 » March InsideGoogle - part of the Blog News Channel: “This technology will be a valuable addition to Google’s suite of advertising and publishing products.”According to a tip received by John Battelle, the price Google paid was in the neighborhood of $30 million. He also notes that many web publishers were using Urchin to understand their ads better, and since pretty much everyone else was using some random analytics package, Google apparently decided to buy one to make easily available to everyone.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Privacy, Global Security Watch
Posted at June 14, 2005 08:56 AM
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