What | Using web services from Microsoft, and Yahoo!, build your own search engine. |
Protocols Used | REST, SOAP |
Data Formats | XML, SOAP |
Tools Featured | SoapClient |
APIs Used | Microsoft Live Search API, Yahoo! Web API |
At this point, we have a little bit of mashup experience and have utilized two simple, but popular, web services protocols. We’re going to build on that knowledge in this chapter by creating a slightly more useful web application. We are also going to be introduced to SOAP, the third, and most complex of the currently fashionable web service protocols.
In this chapter, we are going to create our own search engine. In the past, this would require a massive amount of hardware resources, and complex search and spidering algorithms. Lucky for us, search engines like Google, Microsoft MSN, and Yahoo! have already done this for us. Even luckier for us, these sites have released web services for us to query their data centers and retrieve results...