Google prioritises results for firefox and mozilla users

[Trei, Peter]

Sarad AV

> hi,
> 
> news below:
> 
> http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2809
> 
> Google is way too fast. Whats the difference seraching
> using google in 10 milliseconds and in 5
> milliseconds?Perhaps they are taking some load off
> their server? I fail to see how it is useful to the
> search client.
> 
> Sarad.

They're not speeding up the search; they're speculatively 
pre-loading whatever the top result is into your browser, 
so if you click on it, that page comes up faster.

Of course, this has potential negatives:

* It increases traffic.
* If you're behind a corporate firewall, it
  logs you as having connected to that site,
  and may raise alerts about your visiting
  of certain sites.
* Content you might not want on your machine
  winds up in the cache. Same for cookies.
* The site *may* turn up in your history
  (I haven't checked this).
* The site logs your IP as having connected.

I've turned this feature off.

Peter Trei