[jshb]

I could care little about privacy concern, but I would rather wait a couple of seconds than waste bandwidth downloading pages that I would most likely never look at. Also from web developer point of view, I would like to see how any given site loads under standard use case anyway.

[abraham]

Google is only preloading the top result when it is confident the top result is what you are looking for. If Google does a good enough job then only a small % of preloads will go unviewed.

[jshb]

Google wants to DDOS eHow and ExpertExchange?