I know what Google's going to do next!
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.
My prediction is: Google Labs will be releasing a Google Calendar tool soon. You heard it here first.
The fact they are attracted to the ical standard is cool...maybe it can take off with their support.
UPDATE (2/24): Since there seems to be so many folks linking and reading this post, let me add a couple bits:
1. My guess is that Google Calendar would be a search tool, not a calendar application.
2. If you are interested in a cool calendar tool, check out Mozilla's Sunbird which can be rendered on the web using SourceForge's PHP based Calendar.
3. This is just a guess based on traffic on one site. Even if they are working on it, it may never get out of the lab.
4. Here's the stats I based my prediction on:
| # | Hits | Files | KBytes | Visits | Hostname | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19449 | 50.54% | 19449 | 51.27% | 437655 | 37.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 66.249.65.145 |
| 2 | 10903 | 28.33% | 10903 | 28.74% | 358780 | 30.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 66.249.65.244 |
| 3 | 3031 | 7.88% | 3031 | 7.99% | 167304 | 14.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 66.249.66.97 |
| 4 | 768 | 2.00% | 768 | 2.02% | 31179 | 2.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 66.249.66.239 |
| 5 | 408 | 1.06% | 357 | 0.94% | 4563 | 0.39% | 40 | 11.90% | 65.54.188.90 |
| 6 | 304 | 0.79% | 304 | 0.80% | 16402 | 1.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 66.249.65.205 |
| 7 | 277 | 0.72% | 277 | 0.73% | 10348 | 0.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 66.249.65.49 |
16 Comments:
At February 24, 2005 2:30 AM, Anonymous said…
The Googlebot crawls lots of different types of webpages. Not all of these pages become indexed. Not all of the indexes that google compiles become searchable. Not all of google's searchable indexes make it to an experimental production service (ie Google Labs beta feature.) But it is interesting and thanks for sharing :)
At February 24, 2005 10:17 PM, Nicholas Roussos said…
It would make sense though. Certainly there's need for a calendar search engine. And it seems like the kind of information that could be collected and displayed by algorthms.
At February 24, 2005 11:48 PM, Anonymous said…
Would be a great addition to GMail.
For a while now, I've been looking for a solution as nice as Palm.net. This would go a long way towards that functionality, Mail, Contacts & calendar. Sure hope they add synchronization if they do decide to do this...
At February 25, 2005 11:31 AM, Anonymous said…
Would be a nice adder to the Google Desktop search.
As you may recall the desktop search not only looks at Outlook emails etc, but also looks at other web based emails like yahoo etc.
So what if Google has figured out how to search Outlook calendar AND now is trying to figure out how to search 'other' calendars.
Just a thought...
michael
At February 25, 2005 1:18 PM, David Ascher said…
While I didn't predict it before you, I asked for it before you predicted it: ;-)
At March 02, 2005 10:06 AM, Anonymous said…
Maybe it just got caught in an infinite loop ;)
At March 03, 2005 10:58 AM, Anonymous said…
You are teh dum!
At March 03, 2005 12:58 PM, Dusik said…
Oh no! I just saw someone else get it trouble for knowing what Apple is going to do next! Watch out :)
At March 03, 2005 10:22 PM, joey said…
OK, so if you know so much, whens my beloved Google i/m coming out?
At October 01, 2005 11:51 PM, Alariva said…
things in calendars and schedulers:
Event oriented tasks.
eg: i don't want my sheduler remind me at some fixed time, because i don't know wether i'll have finished first with my other tasks. I want it to remind me under certain conditions, considering my free time and the pre-requisites to start doing that task.
This is also aplicable to places. If i want my sheduler to remind me things to do in a place, i want it to remind me just whemn i'm there.
At November 27, 2005 2:39 AM, SexyNinjaMonkey said…
Well here's an excellent hint calendar.google.com currently it only takes you to the main google website, but it seems there is something in the works.
At March 10, 2006 9:53 AM, jaduncan said…
So. Google really is going to lauch a calendar. I suspected it when calendar.google.com started to route to the main page, and noted that a googlebot kept grabbing my online iCal file. The beta is apparently going on with around 200 people, and the pics have now been leaked.
The leaked pics follow....
At April 13, 2006 4:45 PM, Anonymous said…
You are the prophet.
At April 14, 2006 2:34 PM, Alex said…
wow...it happened...your a genius wow...
At April 14, 2006 2:34 PM, Alex said…
wow...you got it right..freaky!
At April 18, 2006 3:11 AM, Anonymous said…
I saw an article on http://coolclown.blogspot.com too. Wonder if they've taken it off or its gone backwards to history.
CoolClown.Blogspot.Com is mainly maintain humour articles. But its very fun.
Good Thinking/Prediction !
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