Google Web Accelerator Beats China’s Internet Nanny

Google has introduced a new tool to increase the speed of your Internet connection, the Web Accelerator (which my blogging colleague Steve Yelvington mentioned yesterday). I had not installed the feature because I use Maxthon as a browser, which I find to be more efficient than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and less open for attacks.

But a reader of my weblog suggested that in combination with IE, Google’s new tool would beat the Internet censor here in China. Well, that was enough encouragement for me to give it a try.

Indeed, the Google Web Accelerator helps to beat our Internet nanny; at least, I got to the BBC news services easily. I do not think that Google wanted to bring down the Chinese firewall (as far as it still is in place with so many proxies around), but they effectively did.