Google Calendar?
2005-02-26 04:37:57
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.