Google Indexing In Near-Realtime

krou writes "ReadWriteWeb is covering Google's embrace of a system that would enable any Web publisher to 'automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published.' Google's Brett Slatkin is lead developer of PuSH, or PubSubHubbub, a real-time syndication protocol based on ATOM, where 'a publisher tells the world about a Hub that it will notify every time new content is published.' Subscribers then wait for the hub to notify them of the new content. Says RWW: 'If Google can implement an Indexing by PuSH program, it would ask every website to implement the technology and declare which Hub they push to at the top of each document, just like they declare where the RSS feeds they publish can be found. Then Google would subscribe to those PuSH feeds to discover new content when it's published. PuSH wouldn't likely replace crawling, in fact a crawl would be needed to discover PuSH feeds to subscribe to, but the real-time format would be used to augment Google's existing index.' PuSH is an open protocol, and Slatkin says that 'I am being told by my engineering bosses to openly promote this open approach even to our competitors.'"

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[kenp2002]

Keep in mind Google is quickly becoming an all controlling entity.
I have concerns that this technology could expose users to additional threats.
Likely I see it as one more way for Google to corner the search market.
Lastly I ponder the legal implications of a direct tying to a web site's content. What if there is a copyright violation.

Generally I find this to be a dud tech.
Long ago we had to publish to search engines then the crawlers came and life was good.
Again automation is what made things better.
Diving into this without thinking would be suicide.
Often I fear technology more now then I did before.
Simply put I think this is a crpytic way to pillage and trick web develoeprs to forking over additional metrics for page ranking since more frequent updates I would assume gets you a higher page rank.