Google Web Accelerator was a client-side software that increased the load speed of web pages. Launched May 4, 2005; shut down January 20, 2008 — it lived 2 years. One of 7 Google products killed in 2008. Google Web Accelerator was a web accelerator produced by Google. It used client software installed on the user's computer, as well as data caching on Google's servers, to speed up page load times by means of data compression, prefetching of content, and sharing cached data between users. The beta, released on May 4, 2005, works with Mozilla Firefox 1.0+ and Internet Explorer 5.5+ on Windows 2000 SP3+, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines. It was discontinued in October 2008. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).