Editing Web service (section)

=== Discovering and Searching for Web Services ===
While UDDI was intended to serve as a service directory and become the means to discovering web services, many vendors discontinued their UDDI solutions or repositories between 2005-2008, including Microsoft, SAP, IBM, among others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Krill |first=Paul |date=2005-12-16 |title=Microsoft, IBM, SAP discontinue UDDI registry effort |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2673442/microsoft--ibm--sap-discontinue-uddi-registry-effort.html |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=InfoWorld |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=QuinnRadich |title=Removal of UDDI Services from Server Operating System – Win32 apps |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/win7appqual/removal-of-uddi-services-from-server-os |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=docs.microsoft.com |date=27 April 2021 |language=en-us}}</ref> A key study published in WWW2008 Conference (Beijing, China)<ref>{{Cite web |title=WWW2008 – WWW 2008: 17th International World Wide Web Conference (Welcome) |url=https://archive.thewebconf.org/www2008/ |access-date=2022-05-28 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004153056/https://archive.thewebconf.org/www2008/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> presented the state of SOAP-based web services and concluded that only 63% of the available SOAP-based web services at the time of the study were actually active or can be invoked. The study also found that search engines were becoming an ideal source for searching for web services compared to that of service registries like the UDDI due its design complexity.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Al-Masri |first1=Eyhab |last2=Mahmoud |first2=Qusay H. |title=Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web |chapter=Investigating web services on the world wide web |date=2008-04-21 |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367605 |series=WWW '08 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=795–804 |doi=10.1145/1367497.1367605 |isbn=978-1-60558-085-2|s2cid=12570844 }}</ref>