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If this feature is Google-specific, as in, it only operates on google results (by something within the Chrome code), then I think this represents a profound cha

If this feature is Google-specific, as in, it only operates on google results (by something within the Chrome code), then I think this represents a profound change in the generally content-neutral view of websites, and gives them an unfair competitive advantage which may pose regulatory issues. Edit: Okay, it seems to be part of a new HTML API ( http://code.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender.html http://code.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender.html ). Just add the tag: <link rel=prerender href=somewebsite> and it'll render and fetch a page in the background so navigation to it will be fast. Also, apparently prerendering automatically aborts whenever plugins are found on the page, so this may be bad since many slow web pages are slow because of the use of Flash.

pessimist 15y ago
No different from showing snippets below results, as far as I can see. Nothing that any competitor cant copy easily.
tonfa 15y ago
The announcement (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/knocking-down-barriers-to-knowledge.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/knocking-down-barrier...) says it uses a feature available in the next chrome beta (see here for the technical details: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/prerender http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/prerende...).
yanw 15y ago
Regardless if it's an HTML5 API or not: 'competitive advantage' resulting from innovation raises no 'regulatory issues' whatsoever.