The new prerendering of pages in the background while you search seems to create pageviews even if the page isn't clicked on in the search results. While some have come out and said the prerendering won't skew analytics - one wonders if that is...
Google is also big on speeding up search (touting the 2-5 seconds saved per search with Google Instant and the forthcoming prerendering in Instant Pages), what better way than to not force users to click on a page number to get their search results?
Google says most websites will work correctly when pre-rendered in Chrome, but also notes that "triggering prerendering for the wrong site could lead to the link the user did click on loading more slowly.
