Google has long been obsessed with speed. It’s paramount in pretty much everything they do. Which is why the launch of Google+ with some — gasp — attention paid to design is even more surprising.
But a new service Google is launching this evening very much puts the focus back on speed — an obsessive amount of focus, one might say.
Page Speed Service is the latest tool in Google’s arsenal to help speed up the web. This service is also their most ambitious yet. When you sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google, they’ll enable the tool which will fetch your content from your servers, rewrite your webpages, and serve them up from Google’s own servers around the world.
Yes, you read all of that correctly.
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Original content Bob DeMarco, Look Beyond the Obvious
