-Hiroshi- Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 (edited) Recently stumbled across an article detailing Windows 7's OpenSearch technology, which basically adds search capabilities into explorer. Article Decided to cook one up for Neowin, with this little .osdx file you'll be able to search Neowin's forums from within Explorer. :) Download - 1KB Blog post with additional OpenSearch providers. Edited January 4, 2009 by -Hiroshi- Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted January 4, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 4, 2009 Again, another feature not many people know about and certain people disregard when saying Windows 7 should be a service pack to Windows Vista :rolleyes: Thanks for notifying everyone of this -Hiroshi- :) I remember this from one of Long Zheng's blog posts where he incorporated Flikr into Windows Explorer - very nice! :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590360456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 Again, another feature not many people know about and certain people disregard when saying Windows 7 should be a service pack to Windows Vista :rolleyes:Thanks for notifying everyone of this -Hiroshi- :) I remember this from one of Long Zheng's blog posts where he incorporated Flikr into Windows Explorer - very nice! :) No problem, I'm working on a few others from various different websites like Arstechnica and Activewin. :) I'll post them if anyone wants them. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590360478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-KJ Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Is it time consuming making these scripts? Or are they flexible with different sites? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590360518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted January 4, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 4, 2009 No problem, I'm working on a few others from various different websites like Arstechnica and Activewin. :) I'll post them if anyone wants them. Well I'm sure I'll find them useful (for many of the sites I visit, including Neowin) for when I finally install Windows 7. So, thank you in advance :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590360528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 (edited) Is it time consuming making these scripts? Or are they flexible with different sites? Takes me half a minute to create a new search, only restraints is that the page needs to support RSS. What it basically does is that the websites themselves don't support OpenSearch, but Windows Live Search does, and so it uses Live Search to search the pages which feature RSS. Brandon already created one for Deviantart, you can find it in the article. Made a Wikipedia one.. - Download I could be wrong, or it could be a bug in firefox, but it doesn't look like Wikipedia has RSS but it still works.. Edited January 4, 2009 by -Hiroshi- Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590360542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted January 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hehe cool, good to see some people trying out my feature :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590362324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted January 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hehe cool, good to see some people trying out my feature :) Oh wow, is that the feature you were appointed to develop? Or one that you helped think up? etc. (I don't know how Windows development works :p) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590363966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted January 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 5, 2009 Oh wow, is that the feature you were appointed to develop? Or one that you helped think up? etc. (I don't know how Windows development works :p ) Using OpenSearch was my idea and I built the original prototype, but not without some crucial help from a couple other brilliant folks :) Because of that work I'm the dev owner of the feature for Win7. Of course it takes a lot of work from people all around the Find & Organize team to actually make it happen. Lots of pieces had to come together to pull it off. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590364450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted January 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 5, 2009 Using OpenSearch was my idea and I built the original prototype, but not without some crucial help from a couple other brilliant folks :) Because of that work I'm the dev owner of the feature for Win7. Of course it takes a lot of work from people all around the Find & Organize team to actually make it happen. Lots of pieces had to come together to pull it off. Well I don't know how often this happens in Microsoft, but you must be proud that the idea you thought of (and later built a prototype of) was implemented into Windows and will become a very handy feature? :) (obviously when Windows 7 RTMs and is adopted by more people). My dream job would be to work in Microsoft on one of the Windows teams, in the future, after I've learnt much more and graduated university... I can only dream though :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590364476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
l Ancient l Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 The idea is nice and the feature is from a "good-to-have" series... cJr., nice dream :rolleyes: Id also like to work but on design :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590364870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zickar Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Is it like the Keyword feature in Firefox ?? Just a question because I still don't understand it Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590364908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hehe cool, good to see some people trying out my feature :) Awesome, it's an absolutely brilliant idea, and I think it can be categorized under "Now why didn't someone think of that sooner?!" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590365908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnblue Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I hope you guys have tried the Flickr and DeviantArt osdx plugins that are out there. http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/30/a-...rch-connectors/ Opening DeviantArt images directly inside Explorer and setting them as your background wallpaper really shows you how cool / effective this feature can be. Unfortunately I couldn't find cool uses for it beside image stuff just yet -- most plugins are just searches for web pages on websites which I am quite fine with doing on the browser. I'm not part of an enterprise with Sharepoint where I would get utility out of searching for Office docs on a company share. Obviously you can't have stuff like YouTube videos looking like regular video in Explorer (or can you? Someone please do this). If Federated Search can do such a good job with images, can we also interact with other files in Explorer instead of just finding the containing webpage? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590366064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted January 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 5, 2009 Is it like the Keyword feature in Firefox ?? Just a question because I still don't understand it Not sure what you're referring to. Most browsers use OpenSearch Description Files to add custom search providers to their search boxes. This is a bit different, as the browser just takes you to the HTML view of the results. In our case, we use OpenSearch to add the location and then RSS or Atom to enumerate the results and display them in a rich client view, the same view we use for desktop search results. There's also a lot of fancy behind the scenes work to make the items work as if they were local or on a network share (so you have drag-and-drop, open / right-click, previews, etc). We're working on an in-depth blog post, so keep an eye on the E7 blog over the coming weeks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590366502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowl Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Wow Brandon, I love this feature (: Very cool. If I wanted to add a website, would it need to support RSS or Atom, for it too work? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590368300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted January 6, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 6, 2009 Wow Brandon, I love this feature (:Very cool. If I wanted to add a website, would it need to support RSS or Atom, for it too work? Yeah, the site will need to expose the results as either RSS or Atom. Either that, or you'd need to write a proxy that can generate the RSS or Atom feed, as Long Zheng did with his Flickr prototype. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590368894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowl Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Yeah, the site will need to expose the results as either RSS or Atom. Either that, or you'd need to write a proxy that can generate the RSS or Atom feed, as Long Zheng did with his Flickr prototype. Hmm... How does the wikipedia one work? S: Anyway, thanks for the info. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590370236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaks Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Here is mine - Twitter Search Connector :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590372856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted January 6, 2009 Author Share Posted January 6, 2009 Here is mine - Twitter Search Connector :) Nice.. it would've been cool if you guys had posted the scripts I had made up on the front page, instead of stealing the links from my first post that I spent some time investigating for... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590373138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaks Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Nice.. it would've been cool if you guys had posted the scripts I had made up on the front page, instead of stealing the links from my first post that I spent some time investigating for... I am not a regular visitor of forums and I noticed this thread only after you posted the link in the comments. Will keep an eye on the forums :) And FYI I did not steal the links, Google will anyhow take you there ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590373494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiB3R Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Awesome feature :) Loving the DeviantArt Connector www.istartedsomething.com seems to be down so can't get the Flickr Connector yet. Would it be possible to make a YouTube Connector that only searches for videos that are HD, and also have the option to download? That would be sweet. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590373774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceandy Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 This really is a great feature. I find it really useful and a time saver :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590380388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted January 7, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 7, 2009 This really is a great feature. I find it really useful and a time saver :D Mannn, I really can't wait until I can use Windows 7! :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/717288-opensearch/#findComment-590380410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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