USe FUll (Re: Which Web services are the most bestest ones?)

[Mark Baker]

> Clay, those things are more aptly called "Web Applications".
> 
> To be a Web Service, they would have to have an XML-RPC or SOAP interface,
> which as far as I know, they don't.

Bunk!  Please show me where it says that a web service has to be defined with RPC.

> Now it would be really interesting if Google and Blogger had such
> interfaces.

Google does, through HTTP GET.  If you want XML (which is also not a
prerequisite for web services), check;

http://www.google.com/xml?query=rpc+considered+harmful

> For Google I'd like to ping them whenever a page is updated. If that page is
> in their database, they could reload it. With this kind of enhancement you
> could use Google to search for breaking stories, not just
> month-old-or-greater stories.

That would be a cool enhancement, and could easily be offered over HTTP.

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