Google's App Breaks Web Apps, Security

By Ian Bell
May 09, 2005

Google's new web accelerator application is upsetting users with rumors of it breaking web applications and messing up logins and passwords.

"Google Inc.'s Web Accelerator application, launched as a test on Wednesday, uses a combination of local and server-based caching and preloading of Web pages to more quickly serve Web pages to a user's browser. Google's servers, in many ways, act as an intermediary between Web sites and a user's browser.

But Google's approach has had some unintended consequences. Google officials Friday confirmed that the company was aware of as many as five sites where Web Accelerator was returning users cached pages under other people's user names. "