Google Blog Search Ping Support & Windows Live Writer

Got blog? Will ping. 

"Today we're launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly. We'll continue to monitor other pinging services and will contribute change notifications to the community. Read more at our FAQ." [Post Leached in Full]

There's a REST API, so it's easy to add it to your Windows Live Writer ping list.

Here's what I added to my WLW Ping list. The things in bold are the only items I had to change...

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?name=Greg's+Cool+[Insert+Clever+Name]+of+the+Day&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoolthingoftheday.blogspot.com%2F&changesURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcoolthingoftheday.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml