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Google Pulls Plug on Accelerator Downloads

“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.””

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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