Posted on by Dave J.

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

All those 66.249.* IPs belong to GoogleBot.

31 Replies to “I know what Google's going to do next!”

  1. 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 🙂

  2. 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 🙂

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. While I didn’t predict it before you, I < HREF="http://ascher.ca/blog/?p=72" REL="nofollow">asked for it<> before you predicted it: 😉

  15. Oh no! I just saw someone else get it trouble for knowing what Apple is going to do next! Watch out 🙂

  16. Oh no! I just saw someone else get it trouble for knowing what Apple is going to do next! Watch out 🙂

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.< HREF="http://jaduncan.net/google-calendar-cl2-leaked-pictures" REL="nofollow">The leaked pics follow….<>

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