Web services are some of the most exciting emerging technologies to hit the Internet and business. They allow businesses to connect to each other in a standard manner, performing remote procedure calls thru firewalls using the Internet as a transport. Google has provided one of the first public Web services to allow any developer to access Google's search, cache, and spell check services. Visual Studio .NET makes it simple to access the various functions exposed by the Google Web APIs service.
Learn how to access the Google Web APIs service from a Visual Basic .NET Windows front end. This article describes how to call a SOAP Web service, execute a Google search, access a page in Google's cache, and call the Google spell checker. (5 printed pages)
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