Comments on: How to Create a Search Connector for any Website in Windows 7 http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/06/16/how-to-create-a-search-connector-for-any-website-in-windows-7/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:19:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: alwin http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/06/16/how-to-create-a-search-connector-for-any-website-in-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-176423 alwin Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:14:24 +0000 http://www.nirmaltv.com/?p=7290#comment-176423 3rd time's a charm: <blockquote><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/"> <ShortName>ENTER IN THE NAME OF YOUR SEARCH HERE</ShortName> <Description>ENTER IN YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE</Description> <Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://api.bing.com/rss.aspx?source=web&query={searchTerms}+site:WEBSITE.com&web.count=50"/> <Url type="text/html" template="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}+site:WEBSITE.com"/> </OpenSearchDescription></blockquote> 3rd time’s a charm:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/">
<ShortName>ENTER IN THE NAME OF YOUR SEARCH HERE</ShortName>
<Description>ENTER IN YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE</Description>
<Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://api.bing.com/rss.aspx?source=web&amp;query={searchTerms}+site:WEBSITE.com&amp;web.count=50"/>
<Url type="text/html" template="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}+site:WEBSITE.com"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

]]> By: alwin http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/06/16/how-to-create-a-search-connector-for-any-website-in-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-176419 alwin Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:04:46 +0000 http://www.nirmaltv.com/?p=7290#comment-176419 Take 2 on the xml: <blockquote><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/"> <ShortName>ENTER IN THE NAME OF YOUR SEARCH HERE</ShortName> <Description>ENTER IN YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE</Description> <Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://api.bing.com/rss.aspx?source=web&query={searchTerms}site:WEBSITE.com&web.count=50"/> <Url type="text/html" template="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}+site:WEBSITE.com"/> </OpenSearchDescription></blockquote> Take 2 on the xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/">
<ShortName>ENTER IN THE NAME OF YOUR SEARCH HERE</ShortName>
<Description>ENTER IN YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE</Description>
<Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://api.bing.com/rss.aspx?source=web&amp;query={searchTerms}site:WEBSITE.com&amp;web.count=50"/>
<Url type="text/html" template="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}+site:WEBSITE.com"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

]]> By: alwin http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/06/16/how-to-create-a-search-connector-for-any-website-in-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-176413 alwin Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:58:29 +0000 http://www.nirmaltv.com/?p=7290#comment-176413 For your sample XML I think you'll want a separator "+" between the "{searchTerms}" and "site:..." parts of the RSS Url template as well so bing recognizes "site:" correctly. Here's an edited version (also replaced smart quotes I found in there with straight ones): ENTER IN THE NAME OF YOUR SEARCH HERE ENTER IN YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE For your sample XML I think you’ll want a separator “+” between the “{searchTerms}” and “site:…” parts of the RSS Url template as well so bing recognizes “site:” correctly. Here’s an edited version (also replaced smart quotes I found in there with straight ones):

ENTER IN THE NAME OF YOUR SEARCH HERE
ENTER IN YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE

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