The Iron Yuppie

Google Web Accelerator Download

I spent a few minutes downloading this little app. I love the concept... I've been complaining about it FOREVER. Why can't an app pre-load based on data that's already there? Do you know how long I sit there reading? Great idea!

Of course, I wasn't able to get it working, because every time I opened up my blogger window to blog about it, the plug-in crashed. I'd say that's a pretty good summary of the state of Google right now. Great great ideas. Not quite there on the reliability yet... save search, which they knock out of the park. Of course it's only pre-beta right now, and this is absolutely going to keep people on their toes long term, but it does knock their image down a little bit. They'll get it right eventually... their quality gates just are not there yet. And when they do, it's party time (though I think their rate of innovation will suffer greatly). It's not like I think MS or Yahoo are going out of business, but they've got a whole new world to react to.