Advantages
Search Engines
- No More Searching the Internet - or much more limited crawling and comparing. BIG WIN!
- Content more up to date, more comprehensive. BIG WIN!
Proxies, Caches
- No polling required, but need to process updates.
Users
- UP TO DATE CURRENT CONTENT. WIN!
Content Providers
- Reduced Load on Servers from Polls from Search Engines, Caches and Users.
- BIG WIN!!!
Developers - Much simpler to build push applications.