初识OpenSearch

今天是第二次见到这个名词，搜索一下，了解一番:

 

 

FAQ:

What is OpenSearch?

OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results.

You can use OpenSearch formats to help people discover and use your search engine and to syndicate search results across the web.

Why use OpenSearch?

The web is a big place, and search engines that crawl the surface of the web are picking up only a small fraction of the great content that is out there. Moreover, some of the richest and most interesting content can not even be crawled and indexed by one search engine or navigated by one relevancy algorithm alone.

Different types of content require different types of search engines. The best search engine for a particular type of content is frequently the search engine written by the people that know the content the best.

OpenSearch helps search engines and search clients communicate by introducing a common set of formats to perform search requests and syndicate search results.

 

Some ideas about it:

 

OpenSearch — or if not OpenSearch itself, then a technology with similar goals — may offer part of the solution to the problem of the centralization of search. If we recognize search as the primary entry point into information, then we can also agree that decentralizing the search furthers the goal of decentralizing the information. If the search interfaces can be universally exposed, and the search results universally syndicated, then the issue of centralized control is partially mitigated. To that end, OpenSearch offers a common format that enables search engines to publish their interfaces and syndicate their search results.

 

 

Scott Hanselman 介绍的OpenSearch 应用之1

Adding OpenSearch to your website and getting in the Browser's Search Box