Sometimes I'm a little surprised by how long some ideas take to bubble up. Other times I'm surprised by the form they take.
I'm doubly surprised this time.
they've decided to apply a Creative Commons License to the work. It's good to see more and more CC licenses out there, especially from the Big Players.
Last summer, I wrote something titled Many of these new-fangled content publishing systems (MovableType, WordPress, you name it) have the built-in ability to "ping" services like weblogs.com, Technorati, Feedster, My Yahoo, and so on. They do this to let those services know that something is new. The services typically react by fetching an updated copy of the feed within seconds and extracting the relevant info.
These real-time pings mean that we don't have to wait for a full polling or crawling cycle before getting the latest content. But the old school "web" search engines don't listen for these pings. Instead of seeing this post moments have I click the 'post' button, they're generally 6-36 hours behind.
But what if they did listen for pings? Or maybe offered a compatible ping API?
Emphasis is, of course, mine.
I wonder why they're not simply offering to extend the current weblog ping protocol a bit to work toward the goals of freshness and coverage? It seems to me that with an installed base of millions of ping-generating tools, that'd be a no-brainer. I'm surprised that Reader Comments...
Jeremy Zawodny is the author of the popular Yahoo! Search blog as well.
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