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I created this search plugin for my Firefox and think it'd be cool if the spec advertised it for autodiscovery: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/domenic/12a8b54fd197d547eccc/raw/db0dd94b3408e84c9e28ab0a96ce1c23708efa87/opensearch.xml To install it: - serve it with mimetype application/opensearchdescription+xml - Add a <link> to the HTML standard of the form <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="HTML Standard" href="__url__goes__here__"> Also consider adding an entry <Url type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="self" template="__absolute_url_to_search_plugin__" /> before uploading it, because then we can automatically update it in the future if we have ideas on how to make it better.
The google.com links should probably use https URLs, no?
How embarassing. Fixed!
I don't think it would be appropriate for the spec to prefer Google over other search engines, and there's a long tail of search engines who would want to get into this game if I started playing it.
That's a good point and I don't really see a way around it. I guess it will just remain my little search plugin I distribute to friends and use on my browsers.