I have created these providers for Searching Youtube, Google, Google News, GoogleBlogs, MSN and Yahoo.
OPTION ONE
Installation and Usage
1st Step: Click on a icon below to install the Search Provider.
Advanced Search Connectors:
These Search Connectors export Additional properties like Thumbnails, Videos, Documents, Images and other files for use directly from explorer!
Basic Search Connectors: These Search connectors only show web page results without additional properties like Thumbnails, Videos, Documents, Images and other files...
Bing:
Yahoo:
MSNSearch:
Google:
Google claim support for RSS based OpenSearch will be Implemented late 2010-2011, I have asked Google for more specific Information but their response was no comment (Recent conversations suggests they never will allow rss based searches)
An Alternate solution has been created by Dan Bugglin, You can read the full story here: OpenSearch Google in Windows 7 (Nicely done, Thanks Dan!)
Google News:
Google Blogs:
SevenForum`s Search:
ebay Search:
Amazon Search:
Digg
Technet
Techrepublic
Wired
2nd Step: Open Windows Explorer. You will see you new Search Provider listed under Favorites or under C:\Users\<username>\Searches
OPTION TWO
Create Your Own Standard Basic Search Provider
Note
Most websites do not support OpenSearch however a little feature of Microsoft`s Live Search allows you to create your own basic Search Provider for any Website and make it able to search that site directly from Windows 7
1st Step: Open Notepad and paste this code:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/">
<ShortName>Sevenforums</ShortName>
<Description>OpenSearch SevenForums via Live Search using Windows 7 Federated Search</Description>
<Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://api.bing.com/rss.aspx?source=web&query={searchTerms} site:sevenforums.com&web.count=50"/>
<Url type="text/html" template="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}+site:sevenforums.com"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>
2nd Step: Replace the red text with a Shortname you want to call the Search Provider, A description and then replace sevenforums.com URL with the website URL you would like to use for Searching using Windows 7
3rd Step: Click File> Save As and change the "Save as Type" to all files (important!), then under filename use (filename.osdx) to allow Windows 7 to recognize the Search Provider osdx extension
4th Step: Open your newly created Search provider to begin searching the website you specified using LiveSearch`s webite RSS Search Feature
So, it is my understanding that the one for Windows 7 forums is still not 100% active?
Hey JohnG,
Yeah we have one, just copy and save the text from Step1 under "Create your own Personalized Search Provider"
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/">
<ShortName>Sevenforums</ShortName>
<Description>OpenSearch SevenForums via MSN using Windows 7 Search.</Description>
<Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3asevenforums.com&num=10&format=rss"/>
<Url type="text/html" template="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3asevenforums.com&format=rss"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>
It uses a trick with Microsoft`s Live Search to display results in OpenSearch RSS format for any website you specify
We are working on our own SevenForums Search Provider without using LiveSearch and it works but has some search result issues at the moment so the LiveSearch trick will have todo until we have a more reliable one for public release
We previously touched upon how you could add Flickr Search to the Windows 7 Search Federation. dmex over at SevenForums went on to create even additional providers that you can experiment with. A few of the search providers available for download drew their sources from Youtube, Google News, and Yahoo. Of course, the one everyone wants is a Google Search implementation, but apparently, OpenSearch cannot be used with Google Search just yet.
System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Built OS Vista X32. Windows 7 32bit CPU Intel Quad Core 6600 Motherboard Asus P5B Memory 4096 MB Xtreme-Dark 800mhz Graphics Card Zotac Amp Edition 8800GT - 512MB DDR3, O/C 700mhz Monitor(s) Displays Samsung 206BW Screen Resolution 1680 X 1024
Keyboard Microsoft Mouse Targus PSU 550 w Case Thermaltake Cooling 3 x octua NF-S12-1200 - 120mm 1200RPM Sound Optimised Fans Hard Drives 4 X Samsung 500GB 7200rpm Serial ATA-II HDD w. 16MB Cache . Internet Speed 1500kbs
Hey guys! Great to see all this excitement around my feature
Just wanted to let you guys know that instead of hosting the OSDX file in a .zip file, you can link to it directly. If the server it's on is configured to return .OSDX files with the appropriate "application/opensearchdescription+xml" MIME type, the install will happen automatically when you click on the link!
Most hosting providers provide a configuration UI to add file extensions and MIME type associations. If you can't find it, check the help documentation (probably just search for "MIME").
Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number doofenshmirtz evil incorporated OS Windows 8 Pro CPU Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Motherboard ASRock X79 EXTREME11 Memory 32GB (8x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum Graphics Card 2x 3GB EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked+ Sound Card Creative Monitor(s) Displays 3 x27" Dell & 2 x 23" Dell Screen Resolution 3 @ 2560x1440 & 2 @ 1920x1080
Keyboard Microsoft Ergononic 7000 Mouse Logitech Performance MX PSU 1500W ThermalTake Toughpower Case Thermaltake Level 10 GT Cooling Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler Hard Drives 240GB Intel 520 Series, 2.5" SSD, SATA III
Intel X25-M SSD - 160GB Internet Speed 34 Mb/s ADSL2+ (Bonded) Antivirus Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Pro Browser Firefox Other Info WinTV NovaTD
HP CP1515n Color Laser
Sony BD-5300S-0B Blu-ray Writer
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
APC 750i Smart UPS
Anybody have the programming skills to make a plugin for seeqpod?
They have open search implemented, and an API for retrieving results, however, instead of getting back a rss feed, it returns a xspf file (open source xml playlist format.) Windows 7 doesn't seem to recognize anything besides an rss feed, so I guess you would need to use an xsl transformation to convert the xspf to rss, but I think that should work.
Information
OPTION ONE 
Note
Thanks Steven. 
Quote: Originally Posted by johngalt 
I IE9 how to add non default Search Providers 
