>> Does anybody ever do this?
> 
> Um, yes, scads of people. For example, the whole Amazon "cloud 
> computing" is based on this, Yahoo does it for their search engines, 
> iTunes does it for music search, Google has APIs for the stuff they do, 
> Amazon lets you search and buy and sell things that way, etc.

...wait, so you mean there's a way I can use this to find out how much 
money Amazon want for product X?

>> It's news to me that Yahoo is still in business...
> 
> Do you do this on purpose? :-)  I mean, you don't even have to google 
> anything to figure out if Yahoo is still running a web site.

I'm not disputing that Yahoo are still going - clearly they are - I'm 
just saying it's news to me. As in, nobody ever speaks about them any 
more...

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