After Google Blog Search went live, it serves the up-to-date web pages aka blog to users around the world. The secret behide this system is Ping service running at Weblogs.com. This concept is taking the web into asynchronous mode since it is not necessary to poll services to track its changes anymore. The services should notify when its content was changed. That's how ping work. Google Blog Search got the updated blog from Weblogs.com for so long since it started. But this limitation has gone today.

According to Google's announcement, we are able to ping Google Blog Search directly. For more detail, you should consult Google Blog Search Help. In summary, the service URL is http://blogsearch.google.com/ping. You could submit the ping request manually to that URL. Otherwise, you may submit the request using XML-RPC client or your blog engine to below RPC endpoint.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

The method name is weblogUpdate.extendedPing. In addition, you may use REST client or just a simple link (See API).

Tags: blog, ping, google blog search