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Google Pulls Plug on Accelerator Downloads

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“Google cited capacity as the reason for putting the brake on downloads of Accelerator, which is designed to speed the delivery of Web pages. A message on the site said the company has reached its “maximum capacity of users and (we) are actively working to increase the number of users we can support.”

A Google representative denied on Wednesday that the removal of the tool was connected to the security fears. “It is a limited beta,” he said, “and we reached the capacity of users.””

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Our take? There are way too many security bugs and problems with the new program. Google should just fess up instead of denying any problems.

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