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Re:WebKit and Chrome prerendering by teraflop on Monday June 20, 2011 @12:13AM (#2672838)
If you're worried about Google being a bad web citizen, they've already said that they only use prerendering for the tom search result, and only if they think it has a very high probability of being clicked. (Based on my limited testing, this only ever seems to happen with navigational searches.) So you'd be spending that bandwidth anyway, and your users are getting a better experience out of it.

If you're worried about the technology itself being abused to DDOS people, I don't see how it enables any attack methods that didn't already exist.

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Re:WebKit and Chrome prerendering by sjwright on Monday June 20, 2011 @10:52AM (#2674379)
If it is as you say, only the #1 result for searches that have a high probability of it being clicked, then it's generally fine with me. If they were blindly pre-loading the first few results, I'd have a problem.

I guess I should give Google more credit, and assume they're not idiots.

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