Windows 7 Federated Search Providers

garysgold · 30 Nov 2008

Thanks Steven.

Gary

johngalt · 01 Dec 2008

I finally got around to installing W7 x64 on my older WD 250 GB HD - I am impressed thus far. More about that in a different post.

I've got these downloaded - now to try them out .... So, it is my understanding that the one for W7 forums is still not 100% active?

dmex · 01 Dec 2008

johngalt said:

So, it is my understanding that the one for W7 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&amp;num=10&amp;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

NormCameron · 01 Dec 2008

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.

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garysgold · 01 Dec 2008

Been playing around with this a bit. Very

Gary

BrandonLive · 18 Jan 2009

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").

Happy searching!

z3r010 · 18 Jan 2009

Thanks Brandon, I have now added the MIME type to the server....now to make an install button.

Great feature BTW

wooh · 19 Jan 2009

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.

wxwoo · 22 Jan 2009

Here's a quick and simple one I made for isoHunt: http://win7.bluerok.net/isohunt.osdx

Windows 7 Federated Search Providers

Windows 7 Federated Search Providers

Installation and Usage

Create Your Own Standard Basic Search Provider