If WCF is the future why do searches for "web services" still point to ASMX?

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Published on 2010-03-23T20:42:22Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 1:43 UTC
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I am needing to create a web service, so the first thing I did of course was go to google

If you look in those results, you'll see nothing but things about ASMX, which apparently is dubbed legacy technology to be replaced by WCF. Why is it that ASMX is still so vastly popular compared to WCF? (of course, on SO WCF is way more popular.. hmmm)

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