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	A9.com > OpenSearch > OpenSearch 1.1: Description
		OpenSearch Description files are used by search engines to describe themselves and how they can be queried (using OpenSearch Query Syntax).
		OpenSearch Descriptions can be extended via the use of standard XML 1.0 namespaces and prefixes.
		All components of the OpenSearch 1.1 specification are made available by A9.com subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License (the License).
	www.loc.gov /standards/sru/march06-meeting/slides/dglsru-opensearch/standards/opensearch/description (1136 words)

	OpenSearch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication.
		OpenSearch RSS (in OpenSearch 1.0) or OpenSearch Response (in OpenSearch 1.1): format for providing open search results.
		An open directory of public OpenSearch Description Documents was made available at A9 as of August 5, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OpenSearch (319 words)

	Dilettante’s Ball » Gussying up OpenSearch
		The other problem is that in a merged search of two or more OpenSearch targets, the results on page three of a given target may be considerably more relevant than, say, the third result of the other target, yet you will still get all of the less relevant results in the pages in between.
		OpenSearch does implicitly have a mechanism for hiding this complexity, in the same way as the different search URL syntaxes are hidden.
		The OpenSearch Description Document should be extensible so that the type of supported search [CQL, in-line booleans, etc.] and the type of relevance ranking served up by a target could be encoded there.
	dilettantes.code4lib.org /2005/06/15/gussying-up-opensearch (1177 words)

	Dilettante's Ball: Librarians are arrogant asses
		OpenSearch, while limited and limiting (for certain), has a somewhat different purpose than SRW/U. SRW/U is a protocol for searching for and retrieving metadata.
		OpenSearch, at the present time, only supports freetext searching using single words or phrases, and it is not possible to limit search results to specific fields/indexes.
		We use OpenSearch as an output format because it's a lot easier for Joe Blogger (and Jane Miscellaneous Internet Content Provider) to compensate for RSS in their random web site than it is to handle whatever the output will be from the various SRU servers they may want to link to.
	dilettantes.blogspot.com /2005/08/librarians-are-arrogant-asses.html (2858 words)

	OpenSearch
		OpenSearch and/or its respective suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.
		The linked sites are not under the control of opensearch and opensearch is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites.
		Opensearch is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by opensearch of the site.
	www.opensearch.com /terms.asp (339 words)

	OpenSearch and microformats - Unto
		In the same way, OpenSearch is a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards for the purpose of sharing search results.
		OpenSearch search engines can return search results in a human-readable XHTML format; thus it is easy to apply a well-defined layer of semantic markup to indicate the underlying meaning of that content.
		All elements, attributes, and parameters in an OpenSearch context must be associated with an XML namespace.
	wiki.unto.net /OpenSearch_and_microformats (648 words)

	A9 Developer Blog » Blog Archive » OpenSearch 1.1 Draft Available (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One area that benefits the most from this extensibility is the OpenSearch Query Syntax.
		If OpenSearch could open up the standard to accomodate multiple types of responses, then clients would be able to pick and choose the best for the given situation, and servers would have more options for supporting the protocol.
		And finally, OpenSearch 1.1 specifications are being released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
	blog.a9.com /blog/2005/09/13/opensearch-11-draft (762 words)

	IEBlog : IE7 and OpenSearch: Behind the scenes
		We mailed Dewitt and within minutes, got a response from his BlackBerry that A9 was indeed planning on releasing OpenSearch 1.1 under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5, the very same license as simple list extensions.
		Well, it’s PDC and the OpenSearch 1.1 spec draft is live and open for feedback.
		This is a frequent reliability problem I run into on all XP machines I use where I have to wait while the machine responds enough to allow me to use task manager to shut down the rouge process.
	blogs.msdn.com /ie/archive/2005/09/14/466278.aspx (2033 words)

	All Things Distributed: OpenSearch at A9
		OpenSearch at A9 Jeff Bezos is on stage at ETech right now where he is introducing OpenSearch to the world.
		OpenSearch is developed by the folks at A9 to facilitate the innovation of vertical search.
		OpenSearch is based on some small extensions to RSS to allow pagination through search results.
	www.allthingsdistributed.com /historical/archives/000542.html (377 words)

	Library clips :: Syndicated searching: A9 OpenSearch :: May :: 2005
		OpenSearch in a way is kind of similar to what Technorati tag search has done by incorporating results from not only the Technorati index but also aggregating results from Furl, del.icio.us and Flickr.
		Now any website can enable search results of their content to be syndicated elsewhere by adding OpenSearch RSS to their code.
		There is a running list of content providers who have made their website search results compatible with OpenSearch.
	libraryclips.blogsome.com /2005/05/05/syndicated-searching-a9-opensearch (548 words)

	Geeking with Greg: What's open about A9's OpenSearch?
		OpenSearch is a list of specifications of how other search engines can make their search results available.
		Yes, the idea behind OpenSearch is that other search engines can be listed on A9 if they obey A9's specifications for publishing their data.
		A9's OpenSearch initiative would have a lot more credibility if Amazon and A9 started by providing unrestricted access to all of their search engines in the OpenSearch format.
	glinden.blogspot.com /2005/03/whats-open-about-a9s-opensearch.html (288 words)

	The Mediaburn Radio Weblog
		Jeff Bezos is on stage at ETech right now where he is introducing OpenSearch to the world.
		OpenSearch is developed by the folks at A9 to facilitate the innovation of vertical search.
		OpenSearch is based on some small extensions to RSS to allow pagination through search results.
	radio.weblogs.com /0108026/2005/03/15.html (279 words)

	edazzle dot net - opensearch
		OpenSearch is A9.com's way of allowing content providers to produce their search results in a syndicated format.
		It is based upon RSS 2.0, with some extensions, an OpenSearch Description format and an OpenSearch Query Syntax developed by A9.
		The OpenSearch klip can be downloaded from the klipfarm and is compatible with KlipFolio 3 Beta only.
	www.edazzle.net /os (314 words)

	OpenSearch In A Nutshell « MaisonBisson.com
		OpenSearch is a standard way of querying a database for content and returning the results.
		One of the most exciting features of OpenSearch is its support for complex queries as well as simple keyword searches, and the ability to return intelligent responses to a search, such as alternate search suggestions (think spelling corrections) and facets (hey, any librarians attending this?)
		The inclusion of OpenSearch in IE7 more than gives it critical mass, but so far it seems to be just something a few progressive library-types are experimenting with.
	maisonbisson.com /blog/post/11384 (495 words)

	d2r: a9's opensearch
		OpenSearch is a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication.
		OpenSearch offers an alternative: an open format that will enable those search results to be displayed anywhere, anytime.
		Rather than introduce yet another proprietary or closed protocol, OpenSearch is a straightforward and backward-compatible extension of RSS 2.0, the widely adopted XML-based format for content syndication.
	www.dynamicobjects.com /d2r/archives/003144.html (167 words)

	The Electronic Recruiting News - Daily News For Recruiting Professionals
		Returning OpenSearch results is easy—the format is the standard set of XML elements, plus three additional elements designed to support navigation between pages.
		OpenSearch is not a search engine—it is a way for search engines to publish their search results in a standard and accessible format.
		And because OpenSearch is built on top of standard RSS, existing tools—such as blog readers—can read OpenSearch results natively.
	www.interbiznet.com /ern/archives/050321.html (747 words)

	Representational State Transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		REST provides some guidance on how to perform this kind of action as part of its "hypermedia as the engine of application state" constraint, which suggests the use of a forms language (such as HTML forms) for specifying parameterized queries.
		The OpenSearch initiative from A9.com attempts to standardize searches using REST by establishing specifications for discovery of and generic format for use with REST based systems including RDF, XTM, Atom, RSS (in its various flavours), and Plain Old XML (POX) with XLink to handle links.
		Since REST is defined very broadly, it is possible to claim an enormous number of RESTful applications on the web (just about everything accessible through an HTTP GET request).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Representational_State_Transfer (1180 words)

	java.net: Introduction to Nutch, Part 2: Searching
		OpenSearch is an extension of RSS 2.0 for publishing search engine results, and was developed by A9.com, the search engine owned by Amazon.com.
		The OpenSearch results for the search in Figure 1 can be accessed by clicking on the RSS link in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
		Using OpenSearch to integrate Nutch is a great fit if your front-end application is not written in Java.
	today.java.net /pub/a/today/2006/02/16/introduction-to-nutch-2.html (2506 words)

	majordojo: Google Calendar and OpenSearch
		But Atom implementations tend to leverage the entire range of status messages as a means of communicating “ok, so you just request X, here is what happened.” This alleviates the need for the developer to encode these indicators in their response, and to use HTTP as it was designed.
		OpenSearch is the perfect compliment to Atom because while Atom provides an excellent framework for creating, updating and deleting data, it doesn’t address the problem set of finding data quite as well.
		What OpenSearch provides to server is a simple way to accept and repond to search requests, and allows clients to discover from a search what search terms and query parameters the search engine accepts.
	www.majordojo.com /atom/google_calendar_and_open_search.php (700 words)

	E-Commerce News: Trends : Amazon's A9 Pushes 'Open Search' Approach
		A9.com search site is pushing an open format that allows vertical search results to be widely syndicated in a manner similar to a popular approach for cross-pollinating blogs and news feeds.
		A9.com launched OpenSearch, which it bills as "a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication."
		OpenSearch is not a search engine -- it is a way for search engines to publish their search results in a standard and accessible format."
	www.ecommercetimes.com /story/trends/41503.html (959 words)

	Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox - MDC
		Plugins that use the OpenSearch description syntax are compatible with IE 7 and Firefox.
		OpenSearch description files can also be advertised as described in Autodiscovery of search plugins, and can be installed programmatically as described in Adding search engines from web pages.
		If you are wondering when reading the official specification at OpenSearch and the Url element: Mozilla partly violates the spec by using the method attribute and Param tag without using the appropriate namespace.
	developer.mozilla.org /en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox (834 words)

	Jon Udell: How open is OpenSearch?
		Last week at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Jeff Bezos announced OpenSearch, an API that enables third parties to inject their own live search results into Amazon's A9.com.
		When I heard about OpenSearch, I wondered how hard it would be to integrate my new view of InfoWorld search as a "column" in A9.
		OpenSearch is interesting in lots of ways, but here I want to focus on its use of RSS.
	weblog.infoworld.com /udell/2005/03/28.html (1037 words)

	unalog: Tag (opensearch)
		with tags google opensearch atom in group code4lib also by 1 other
		with tags wordpress opensearch a9 in group code4lib
		with tags sru srw opensearch oai-pmh sqi in group code4lib also by 1 other
	unalog.com /tag/opensearch (224 words)

	Puzzlepieces – tag ‘opensearch’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Note that at the time of this writing the OpenSearch Description files they’re using are in v1.1 draft 1, which they’ll hopefully upgrade appropriately.
		A fourth component to the specification: OpenSearch Query which allows you to reference a query.
		One specific thing that OpenSearch does that the other specifications don’t, is allow search engines to use their own URL variables instead of predefined ones.
	www.faganfinder.com /wp/tag/opensearch (1438 words)

	Solent TV - OpenSearch Query News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		OpenSearch is a technology developed by A9.com which in there words.
		By quering the source of information directly the user is given back much more targeted and pure results for the category of information of interest.
		For more information on OpenSearch technology please refer to the information on OpenSearch at the A9 website.
	www.solent.tv /opensearchfaq.aspx (546 words)

	» IE7 Beta 2 Will Have A9 OpenSearch InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Considering OpenSearch is an open system, there is nothing preventing the many fine people who do work on Firefox from using this system.
		Even if you argue that the current system is better, the OpenSearch system is there for the using, and not using it is just wasting a resource.
		OpenSearch is a great system (just try it out over at a9.com), and Firefox certainly wouldn’t hurt by taking advantage of it.
	microsoft.blognewschannel.com /index.php/archives/2005/09/15/ie7-beta-2-will-have-a9-opensearch (5572 words)

	OpenSearch: Add Your Own Search Engine To A9 (Or Potentially, Anywhere)
		A9's new OpenSearch program out today allows anyone with search results to create their own "button" that can be added to the A9 search engine, allowing users there to get custom specialty or vertical search results.
		A number of new buttons A9 users can add have already been posted on the site, in conjunction with the announcement that was made at the Etech conference today from Amazon chief Jeff Bezos.
		From what I can tell, OpenSearch is built around adding some minimal extensions to RSS, which seems to be Amazon's way of escaping criticism that it's trying to do something proprietary and gain acceptance.
	blog.searchenginewatch.com /blog/050315-161647 (364 words)

	ebyblog » Blog Archive » Innovative XML Server - OpenSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While I was doing this I came across a post over at open-ils that referred to OpenSearch.
		I had done a little with OpenSearch when it first came out but not since I started playing with the XML server.
		I know this is confusing and opensearch supports passing result number but again with was something I reused from before.
	blog.ryaneby.com /archives/innovative-xml-server-opensearch (622 words)

	OpenSearch Spec Updated « MaisonBisson.com
		OpenSearch 1.1 allows you to specify search results in HTML, Atom, or any other format (or multiple formats) in addition to just RSS.
		In addition, OpenSearch 1.1 will be supported by Internet Explorer 7, among other software, so we strongly recommend that you upgrade.
		And full OpenSearch support, taking advantage of the suggested and alternate search features, is my next big project (here’s where I’m going with that).
	maisonbisson.com /blog/post/11028 (379 words)

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