Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, .NET Framework W eb services enable you to link disparate systems within an organization or across enterprises. Despite their benefits, the expected avalanche of publicly available Web services that provide functionality to the development community has been slow in coming. Google's recent release of a Web service API for automatic queries using its search engine is a big leap forward. I'll give you an overview of the functionality available...
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