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07/10/2001 Archived Entry: "www.theashergroup.com - XML-RPC Interfaces on this site"

XML-RPC Interfaces on this site

The goal is to create a web service demonstration, and a module for the ACS that would let any site call over to an ACS site and ask that ACS site to "search itself" for something. In the long run, I would hope that would yield better results than a google search of the site, and it might expose to the searcher, closed off portions of the site.

The other use would be to let cooperating community sites (that is, different websites) integrate a little bit more. If you've ever used Michael Cleverly's Community Uber-search, well, this is the kind of service I want to provide, but a bit better. Michael has a crawler up and when you type in your search words, and designate which AOLserver/ACS/Tcl/Postgres sites to search, it goes out and searches each of them. It's wonderfully useful.