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
- Deviant Art
- Flickr
- Google Blog Search
- Live Search
- MSDN
- MSFT Support
- Twitter Search
- Wikipedia
- WinVistaClub
- Yahoo
- 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]&num=10&format=rss”/>
<Url type=”text/html” template=”http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3a[sitename.com]&format=rss”/>
</OpenSearchDescription>