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A9.com - Innovations in Search Technologies - OpenSearch

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:51:06 +0000

A9.com invented the OpenSearch technology for search aggregation in 2004. OpenSearch is a set of simple formats for the sharing of search results. Any website that has a search feature can make their results available in OpenSearch format. Other tools can then read those search results.

Tags: #opensearch #search #webdev

Searching across websites with OpenSearch | StressFree

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:23:50 +0000

"Providing search services that span a number of disparate websites is a challenging problem that in the past has been left to the big-boys such as Google. However Amazon's OpenSearch RSS format is changing this reality and providing a means for effective multiple website search to be deployed at low cost by small development teams. "

Tags: #aggregation #opensearch #rss #search

XML.com: Introducing OpenSearch

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:55:25 +0000

"You go to your favorite Web 2.0 search engine and set up a query like http://web20.example.com/search=john+doe&ouptut=atom and search for "john doe," but rather than getting back results as the usual HTML web page, you get it back in Atom format."

Tags: #atom #opensearch #rest #search #webdev #xml

Ludicrous › Firefox Search Plugin: Post Updates to Twitter right from your Firefox Search Bar!

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:42:19 +0000

"“Post to Twitter” is a search plugin for Mozilla Firefox which allows you to quickly post statuses (or “tweets”) to your Twitter account from the Firefox search bar"

Tags: #firefox #opensearch #twitter