Mark Tinka wrote:
I don't see the business sense, but hey, this is a techie's list :).1) Quality of service. If Google has lots of bandwidth, which they do, and you are "well-connected" Akamai style to Google, then you may benefit from Google fetching the pages for you.
2) Updating Google's index. If they combine the fetch with indexing the content, then they can have a "fresher" view of the Internet ... consider live usage of the web as a hint on what pages to prioritize for your next crawl. And why bother to crawl when you have it already because you fetched the page for the end user? This is smarter than blindly crawling and recrawling.
3) Maintain market share. Google is popular partly because of their approach to making their site a service and not a nuisance. Having more services that people find useful will help to stave off strong counterattacks by Yahoo! and Microsoft. If people are happier with Google, they will be more likely to stay with Google.
-- G.
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