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Google is Prefetching
By Mukesh
Ever heard of the term prefetching? No? Ok then here's news
for you! Google in a growing spree to satisfy the searcher's soul
has introduced a feature called prefetching which tends to request
your web browser to download the first webpage in their SERP without the user even knowing of it. The logic you ask?
Well the logic here is to give the searcher faster access to the most relevent webpage. In this case the first website in the google serp. When you visit a page using firefox or mozilla (the two browsers that support this feature) google requests the browser to download the first search engine result immediately. So when you click on the webpage it loads
almost immediately saving much of your time. Don't like the idea? Well, then you can utilize the option of turning prefetching off. If you are a firefoxer
Just type 'about:config' in your address bar, go to 'network.prefetch-next' and set value to 'false'. Or check out this link if you
are using Mozilla.
Google asserts that this feature gets automatically enabled only when it is sure that the user will click on the first result. Although it is humble enough to accept that they cannot be 100% correct at all times. This means the next time you look-up something over google using a firefox or mozilla, your browser is likely to end up caching webpages you haven't even visited. Found cookies of some unvisited websites recently? Well you have been prefetched!!
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