OpenSearch descriptions for Flickr, GMaps, BBC
Some of the sites I use most don’t support the very nice feature of OpenSearch discovery links. Among these are Flickr and Google Maps – so I first have to navigate to Flickr, then search rather than doing it straight from the browser quick search area.
Fortunately, someone has provided this for me. Just go to http://mvinetwork.co.uk/opensearch/ and click open your OpenSearch discovery and add whatever engines you want!
Hopefully more services that already can support OpenSearch templating add the necessary and simple descriptions and discovery links.
For extra credit, you could extend the OpenSearch definition for GMaps to support location name: http://maps.google.com/maps?q={searchTerms}&hnear={geo:locationString?} – and even Flickr supports (and was the model for) OpenSearch-Geo box search.
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December 11th, 2009 at 10:12 pm (#)
Hey Andrew!
Thanks for the nudge; Flickr supports this natively now (as does Chrome, on the client-side).
December 11th, 2009 at 10:24 pm (#)
You rock Seth!
Now the BBC & Google should feel the pressure.
Any chance of adding Geo support?
December 11th, 2009 at 10:39 pm (#)
Eventually.. KML responses would be nice too, but hey, maybe.
Is there anything that supports the geo search extension yet? (Or time, as that’d be interesting too.)
August 7th, 2010 at 10:14 am (#)
Glad you found this useful, if you want any more site searches added to the list I can add them easily enough.
October 18th, 2010 at 1:35 pm (#)
i also like the resizing tool of Flickr aside from the easy upload and download interface it provides`:;
November 8th, 2010 at 6:56 am (#)
Flickr is the best photosharing tool that can resize my pictures so well `