OpenSearch is a standard way of querying a database for content and returning the results.
The official docs note simply: “Any website that has a search feature can make their results available in OpenSearch format,” then adds: “Publishing your search results in OpenSearch™ format will draw more people to your content, by exposing it to a [...]
Posted July 19, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: a9, api, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, opensearch, search, search aggregator, search api. 2 Comments.
I’ve been meaning to point out (and steal from) Dave Pattern’s post on tipping off IE7 (and other browsers soon too, hopefully) to available OpenSearch targets for some time now. I haven’t had time to do the stealing, so I’ll have to settle for pointing it out while it’s still news.
What’s the trick? As Dave [...]
Posted March 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: autodiscovery, dave pattern, davey p, ie7, opensearch, opensearch autodiscovery, search api. One Comment.
