There has been a little bit of discussion around the Internet today about the new Google Web Accelerator which is in BETA (what isn’t). Essentially the idea is that when you type in the URL for a page, the web-accelerator intercepts at the Winsock layer (presumably) and forwards it to Google instead. Google checks to see if it has a copy in your cache and sends it to you.
There have been a couple of issues, and this piece on C|NET gives a pretty good coverage I think.
Privacy is obviously a concern, and there have been a few minor privacy and security issues with it already. But personally I think it might lead to exclusive parts of the web that you can only access through the accelerator.
Like so many things – it may not be on the cards right now, you never know.