"Rich" <nosp@mnospam.com> wrote:

>
> "Phper" <hi.steven.tu@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fc274890-6d36-458e-b430-27e34efe7f39
@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
>> Now the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is ongoing, Google presents a link
>> to the changing Olympic medal count on the homepage. The medal count
>> information comes from results.beijing2008.cn. If Googlebot doesn't
>> keep visiting this website, how can it provide us real-time
>> information about the Olympic medal count? If Googlebot keep visiting
>> this website constantly, is it a heavy burden on the website?
>
> Beijing2008.cn is providing Google with a live feed from the website,
> probably via RSS.
>
> The website has a useful RSS page if you want to get your own feeds here
> http://en.beijing2008.cn/rss/
>
> Google does not constantly crawl the site !!

So.... isn't fetching an RSS feed the same as visiting (Note that the OP
didn't say crawl.) ...

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