Google Blog Search Pinging Service [via] (gee, their service names are getting as friendly as the Windows Live galaxy).
In case you need a definition, a ping service is a website that your blogging software automatically calls (“pings”) whenever you post to your blog, so that the world knows which blogs have been updated last. Which is, obviously, of the utmost importance for the welfare of humanity. Uh, no, I meant: Which is, obviously, an awful lot of data nowadays, and most existing ping services have outages and performance issues every once in a while. Now who better than Google to make a reliable service?
I love that their API documentation is the simplest, most straightforward I have ever seen. When I implemented pings in my homebrew blogging software, I had to spend a while sifting through information I never quite managed to make sense of; Google’s version, however, is really intended to make it easy for software developers to implement the functionality quickly and with no fuss.
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