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Add OpenSearch search to your site
Posted by stuporglue on Mar 18, 2010 in Programming, Projects
One of the original reasons I switched to Firefox was the built-in Google search box. Now even Internet Explorer has built in search. You can search Google, Bing, Wikipedia, etc, but what if you want people to be able to search your site from their browser? What if you want to search some other site from your browser? Enter OpenSearch. OpenSearch describes a format for a special XML file you host on your site. When an OpenSearch compatible client comes along, they can detect that file and allow the user to search using the parameters you specify. Basically, it’s a…Read the Rest