Google Blog Search is now accepting pings and republishing the updates it observes. You can submit an update using XML-RPC or REST, similar to other blog services and easily added to your weblog’s ping configuration.
RPC endpoint: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
Google publishes the last 5 minutes of ping activity in its changes.xml file. It is possible to receive pings of different recency by adding the last parameter to your request with a number of seconds between 1 and 300.
The new service is a change in Google’s view of the web, accepting the value of fresh index content within minutes instead of waiting for the regular polling schedule.
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Commentary on "Google Blog Search adds ping beacon, changes.xml":
Kevin Burton on wrote: #
I just did a quick audit….. already being spammed :-/
I hate spam.
Where is VeriSign with their super cool spam-free ping service? Hurry up guys!
Johan Sundström on wrote: #
Surprisingly, that changes feed isn’t valid XML; ampersand characters may appear unquoted at least in the name attribute.