What Slimey? (Score 1)

Sorry to be ignorant, but I don't get it. Doesn't every site owner want to drive up their number of hits so they get rated higher anyway. Doesn't this only happen if a user is looking for something like your site to start with? If 6% of the traffic is coming from AVG now, how much was coming from the same users before AVG8? Are there actually statistics indicating the Internet is being flooded by these requests. Isn't this exactly the sort of thing Tim Berners-Lee is hypothesizing as part of Web3.0? I don't see who this is hurting. Certainly seems like a good thing for the user (if your machine can sustain the workload...mine can't).