Michael Arrington from TechCrunch has a good summary of the new Amazon  Grid Storage Web Service.  In a nutshell this new service from the number one online bookseller, provides web developers with a very inexpensive ($.15/GB of storage) online storage system that can be accessed using both REST and SOAP.  The idea is that Amazon provides the storage, bandwidth and scalablility any you the developer build applications on top of it.

The web development weblog has three great tutorials that will show you how to create your own customized search page using SOAP from PHP. The tutorials cover:

• The Google Search API
• Yahoo Search API
• MSN Search API