Who Benefits

The site-maintainers:

More sites will open up their pages, because they are less bothered by the engines. With minimal expense, their data can be found. One central administration point is provided where new sites are registered. Access will be optimally implemented, because the software is only written once. Even data on pay- or registration-required sites can be looked-up in all public spiders.

The users:

People searching for information profit most: more sites will open up their pages, so more data is searched. New algorithms can be tested easily, as well in interfacing as in retrieval methods. This will give better search engines.

Spider-developers:

Organizations which develop spiders save a lot of money and effort, when they easily can hook-up to the fetching system. They can concentrate on what makes them special and spend more money on that.

Service providers:

The companies involved in selling Internet-bandwidth (ISPs) will see a decrease in network capacity requirements for the search-facilities, However, when the search works better more people will use the Net (they always proclaim that "usage grows as fast as they can deliver").

A new role will emerge for them to develop and maintain the fetchers and possibly hosting the new spiders, too.