Windows federated search is a wonderful feature in Windows 7, which allows you to search various database files from your desktop. More importantly, you don’t have to use any special browser for it.
Windows 7 has customization facility in many features and you can use it to create your own federated search connectors for a blog or website. There is an easy method to create your own Windows 7 search connectors.
How to Create Windows 7 Search Connectors?
If you are interested in creating a search connector on Windows 7 then follow the tutorial given below.
<?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%3asitename.com&num=10&format=rss”/> <Url type=”text/html” template=”http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3asitename.com&format=rss”/> </OpenSearchDescription>
- Copy all the text and paste it in any text editor.
- Replace the text in bold form with the desired information.
- Change the number of results by changing the value 10 (num=10).
- Save the file on desktop and change its extension to .osdx
See also: Windows 7 Search Connectors for Federated Search
