Windows 7 Search Connectors for Federated Search

Windows 7 has so many wonderful features to enhance the work experience. Search Connectors is an exclusive feature in Windows 7 which lets you search various website databases.

This time, Microsoft has allowed users to customize Windows 7 and as we’ve seen in the past weeks many designers have designed free windows 7 themes for other users. Federated search feature is also a customizable feature in Windows 7.

A forum member of WinVistaClub.com has developed several useful windows 7 search connectors. The pack of Windows 7 search connectors contains 12 search connectors. Check out the list of Windows 7 search connectors available in this pack.

Windows 7 Search Connectors

1. Deviant Art
2. Flickr
3. Google Blog Search
4. Google
5. Live Search
6. MSDN
7. MSFT Support
8. Twitter Search
9. Wikipedia
10. WinVistaClub
11. Yahoo
12. YouTube

Download Windows 7 Search Connectors Pack

Search Connectors

Simply double click on the .osdx file to install it on Windows 7.

You can also create your own federated search connector in Windows 7 by using following code.

<?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>[Name of your choice]</ShortName>
<Description>[Create your own connectors]</Description>
<Url type=”application/rss+xml” template=”http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3a[sitename.com]&amp;num=10&amp;format=rss”/>
<Url type=”text/html” template=”http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3a[sitename.com]&format=rss”/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

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