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Search Discovery; Extending IE7

I have added "Search Discovery" to CSUpdate. I think your search button should have lighted up by now, if you are using IE7.

Search Discovery

The Beta 2 Preview also allows sites to advertise additional search providers that might be interesting to users. This works in a similar way to Feed Discovery.

When IE detects search providers via Search Discovery the Toolbar Search Box lights up to indicate there are more providers to see in the dropdown (we will offer the option for a sound notification as well – off by default). When the dropdown is opened up the suggested providers appear. Users can then add these providers permanently to the browser, or simply search to try out the provider first. We limit the number of discovered providers to a maximum of 3 providers not already installed on the machine.

A provider is discovered!

Search button when a provider is discovered

The format for this is to use the <link> element in HTML:

<link title="Title" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="search" href="URL">
Title
: This is the title that will appear in the Toolbar Search Box dropdown

URL
: This will link to the OpenSearch Description of the search provider.
type
and rel must be as shown in the example

Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:01 PM by tolgaki
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