This should be compliant with the spec, so not just Explorer can use it.Read More How to Make Chrome Your Default Engine AFAIK it’s not NEEDED for Explorer but it’s part of the OpenSearch spec so there it is. There’s an extra file, opendescription.xml. Just remember to change the urls in all the files to point to your server instead of mine. This DOES proxy the results through my server so don’t use that if you plan on using it regularly… here’s the source code. Download and double click to have Explorer open a search window. Turns out Google pages use a different encoding than what I was marking the XML file with, and that was causing feeds with smart quotes to annoy Explorer.Īnyways it’s working now. For some reason I didn’t think to try to view the feed in Internet Explorer to get a more detailed error report. Had a few annoying problems along the way… a big one was I couldn’t always get Explorer to parse it and it doesn’t tell you why. So I made a PHP script to parse the HTML output Google feeds web browsers (using this library) and spit out an OpenSearch RSS feed. Basically you can pass a script your search terms and get them back in an RSS or Atom feed which Explorer or any OpenSearch compatible client can parse and display how they like.
It uses the standard OpenSearch spec (with their own Microsoft twist, of course!) to query search engines which already conform to this standard. It’s not as convenient as in a web browser (the search engine is represented by a file somewhere on your computer that you download) but it works. Windows 7 introduces a new feature which allows you to add search engines right to Windows Explorer. I don’t wait around for Google, I’ll do it myself. I just hacked together a neat little PHP script that allows me to Google search right from Windows Explorer in Windows 7.
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