Comments on: Metasearching the web with OpenSearch http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/09/metasearching-the-web-with-opensearch/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dual search revisited « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/09/metasearching-the-web-with-opensearch/#comment-125602 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:07:02 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-125602 [...] 16, 2008 Dual search revisited Posted by Jon Udell under Uncategorized   Paul Pival noticed a problem with the browser widget I made the other day to search Google and Live side-by-side. The service [...]

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/09/metasearching-the-web-with-opensearch/#comment-125583 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:51:37 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-125583 Actually the fault lies with http://dualsearch.atsites.net. The other provider I created, for FuzzFind, doesn’t have this problem. I guess I should swap out the backend of the DualSearch provider for another. But which?

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/09/metasearching-the-web-with-opensearch/#comment-125579 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:59:18 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-125579 > Do quotes work at your end?

Ouch, no they do not, same failure as you describe in both IE and FF.

Anybody know how to pass those through?

]]> By: Paul Pival http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/09/metasearching-the-web-with-opensearch/#comment-125577 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:30:33 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-125577 Hi Jon, in DS when I run a search including quotes it seems to bomb out, telling me: Your search – \ – did not match any documents. Do quotes work at your end?

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/09/metasearching-the-web-with-opensearch/#comment-125527 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:56:59 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-125527 Yes, 2008 minus 1996 is 12, not 14 :-). Ironically, I was studying mathematics back in 1996 when I bought that issue of Byte Magazine. I guess I need to go back to school!

]]> By: Steven Livingstone http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/10/09/metasearching-the-web-with-opensearch/#comment-125523 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:35:08 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-125523 Hi Jon. Interesting post – I started to really care about OpenSearch during my work on http://weblivz.com.

Although I was considering pre-defined searches (so they build complex syntax, merge RSS/Atom output and are ready when you next check) – i was also very interested in two things (i posted some thoughts at [1]).

1. How to make it easier to search these other sites.

2. How to get RSS/Atom out from them (this week Google said it’s in the works).

Of course it occurred to me that with all the complexity (and there is quite a bit to talk about when you go into merging the datasets) i could provide a “real time” OpenSearch interface directly over these normalized sites.

That could then fit your plug-in idea :)

cheers,
steven
http://livz.org

[1] http://tinyurl.com/3kjs8b

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