In addtiton to my first post “Windows 7 Federated Search” I would like to show you another way how you could make use of opensearch. Well Firefox and Internet Explorer support both the opensearch specification, which let us customize the browser’s search box.     OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a...

This article presents the Windows 7 Federated Search Provider and how you can use. I have created one for my blog which you might have noticed in my download area befor e. Feel free to use it on your own Windows 7 PC to search my blog from there.       The MSDN defines Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Windows 7 introduces support for search federation to remote data stores using OpenSearch technologies. Federated search...