[uf-discuss] OpenSearch

[Stephen Paul Weber]

Currently I use an hAtom+XOXO mix for search results on my pages, but
I have found that hAtom works sufficently for most -- I just wasn't
sure if this was a 'proper' use of it... but I figure it probably is
since you can have RSS for search too...
   -- Singpolyma

On 8/30/06, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> This looks very possible. In particular,
>
> (1) according the article, Yahoo only returns its results in HTML, so
> we know HTML is good
> (2) one could add an extra field to the OpenSearch XML (a description
> file about how your results are returned) indicating that the file is
> hAtom
> (3) parties not understanding hAtom can just display HTML
> (4) parties wating to understand hAtom can do it themselves or use a webservice
>
> When I was at MashupCamp in January (Feb?) there was a guy from
> A9/OpenSearch very interested in mashup type applications and
> developer feedback so there's a door open for us.
>
> I'll also note that his WordPress integration problem will probably go
> away if we did this, as an independent XML-feed result will not have
> to be returned;
>
> Regards, etc...
> David
> http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com
>
> On 8/30/06, Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Ted Drake wrote:
> >
> > > It's slightly off topic, but I thought I'd share my latest post
> > > about how we
> > > added the OpenSearch protocol to the Yahoo! Tech site. This open
> > > protocol
> > > lets you define how your web site's search engine works and then
> > > activates
> > > the personal search box in IE7 and Firefox 2. It also helps the
> > > aggregating
> > > search engines, such as A9.
> > >
> > > http://www.last-child.com/add-opensearch-to-your-web-site/
> > >
> > > Sorry if it is too off-topic.
> >
> > I'm not sure this is off-topic at all.  I think OpenSearch solves a
> > problem by extending RSS that microformats could solve by extending
> > HTML, possibly hAtom specifically.  The problem is identifying search
> > results for reuse in aggregation, reformatting, etc.  The use cases
> > are obvious as there are plenty of applications that already reuse
> > this type of data and could benefit from a standard format for
> > already published search results (A9, OS X Sherlock, etc.), there's
> > certainly no shortage of search results on the web to use as real-
> > world examples from the general web searches to very narrow-focus
> > searches, and between hAtom and OpenSearch, I suspect most of the
> > work is already done.  hSearch?
> > `
> > Peace,
> > Scott
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