Comments on: Part II - Why Search Engines will be redundant soon… http://42quirks.com/2006/08/21/part-ii-why-search-engines-will-be-redundant-soon/ Eccentricities of an inhuman mind... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:52:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Robert Dewey http://42quirks.com/2006/08/21/part-ii-why-search-engines-will-be-redundant-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Robert Dewey Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:28:00 +0000 http://42quirks.com/?p=37#comment-34 What is time? Time is the variable that could be GREATLY solved by using RSS. The vast majority of websites use RSS. If a search company such as Google used RSS as an alternative method for indexing, the results would be MUCH more current with MUCH less effort. For example, Google crawls through billions of web pages, most of which are stale (I'm sure your blog gets crawled everyday, even though there are no updates). In the case of RSS, Google would only re-index your site when you ping their server. Imagine if most of the sites on the internet implemented this... No wasted time or resources. What is time? Time is the variable that could be GREATLY solved by using RSS.

The vast majority of websites use RSS. If a search company such as Google used RSS as an alternative method for indexing, the results would be MUCH more current with MUCH less effort.

For example, Google crawls through billions of web pages, most of which are stale (I’m sure your blog gets crawled everyday, even though there are no updates). In the case of RSS, Google would only re-index your site when you ping their server.

Imagine if most of the sites on the internet implemented this… No wasted time or resources.

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