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Google Calendar?
By Nathan Weinberg
Dave Jung thinks Google has a special crawler reading calendar data, based on the fact that his ical-based website calendar is getting huge hits from a Googlebot.
I’ve seen serious traffic on my church’s website this month from Googlebots. Last year I added a Calendar to the site using the ical standard, and now the Googlebots are pinging the heck out of the php pages rendering the calendar. We’re talking 90% of the site’s accesses have been from Google this month.
Its an interesting idea. Google does want to organize the world’s information, and calendar information is a unique type of information. Presumably, Google Calendar would be like Google News, crawling calendars in real-time and displaying as updated information as possible, and letting you search it to find things to do in your area at particular times.
I’d love to see lots of little Googles, searching all sorts of data. You’ve got miniature Googles displaying flight info and package tracking data, and the more the merrier. Google’s got many years ahead of them"
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