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A Journal about the experiences I have developing little applications in C#, Perl, Html and Javascript and talking about things new things that I use. Always Geeky; Always Nerdy; Always poor Grammer!

I am a Software Analyst Developer working in Southport, England but living in Liverpool. I develop mainly in C# and ASP.Net. I have been developing comercial software for several years now. I maintain this site (hosted at SwitchMedia UK) as a way of exploring new technologies (such as AJAX) and just generally talking about techie geek issues. This site is developed through a host of Perl scripts and a liberal use of Javascript. I enjoy experimenting with new technologies and anything that I make I host here.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

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Google Search and IE 7 Search Provider

If you are using IE7 Beta 2 and you are looking this entry from my site you should notice that I have provided a customer search provider.

The search provider hooks up with Google search, so you can now search my site for specific text. I am not too sure if this breaks any T's & C's of Google but I will take it down if anyone complains.

This is just a showcase really to show you how easy it is to set up a custom site search provider in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2.

There is an OpenSearch file at http://www.kinlan.co.uk/opensearch.xml which contains the following:

<opensearchdescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<shortname>Paul Kinlans Blog: Google Search</shortname>
<description>A Google Search from Paul Kinlans C#, .Net Framework</description>
<url template="http://www.google.com/custom?q={searchTerms} &domains=www.kinlan.co.uk& sitesearch=www.kinlan.co.uk&amp;forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&safe=active& cof=GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399; AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF; LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF; FORID:1;&hl=en" type="text/html">
</opensearchdescription>

And each page has the following <link> in the section.
<link title="C#, .Net Framework: Google Search" href="http://www.kinlan.co.uk/opensearch.xml" rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" />

Hope this helps anyone who wants to set up search providers.

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Nice. I look forward to the day when all blogs offer this.

Btw, your ShortName is much longer than 16 characters, the maximum, so you should be using LongName instead. See http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/1.1/description/#longname .

Also, while your OpenSearch Description file is correct, your display on the blog post uses some lowercase characters when they should be in uppercase. Somebody might get confused if they copy that and find out it doesn't work.

By Michael, at Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:48:00 PM

Another Example of Search Provider for Anonymouse.org can be found here:
http://anonymouse.org/addons/addons.html
With that you can surf anonymously by just entering any website in the searchbar-field.

By Steve, at Saturday, March 04, 2006 10:47:00 PM

You may want to check out http://www.opensearchlist.com which is a repository of OpenSearch searches. You can add your own searches, customized like you did for this blog.

By Newtronic, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:41:00 PM