Want to know what power is? Power is getting people to change their web server configurations to support your new beta experiment. Gotta tip my hat to Google… they really have clout.

It’s amazing to me… Google comes out with a Web Accelerator that basically caches the page to their server like static content, which isn’t really new, and releases it as a beta. Oh, and they also only give it out to a limited number of people.

Next thing you know, you’ve got people out there seeing that the service doesn’t work on HTTPS connections, and they change?! I mean, wow.

I think the real reason that this is happening is because Google is really effin’ smart. The concept of remote page caching is, like I said, not that new… Sprint PCS did it, Earthlink does server-side compression and caching, so why is Google’s so popular? Because “they’re Google?” Nope. It’s because they’re the first service to actually put a quantifiable number as to how much time you’ve “saved.”

People like numbers and results. People don’t trust something if it simply proclaims itself to be what you want. It’s smart, and once again, I’m privately jealous of Google, it’s clout and it’s brilliance.

Damn.