{"id":810,"date":"2010-07-22T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2010-07-22T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:19:36","slug":"google-search-appliances-support-opensearch-and-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/google-search-appliances-support-opensearch-and-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Appliances support OpenSearch and Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/opengsa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"opengsa\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/opengsa_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"opengsa\" width=\"202\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while back I <a title=\"Integrating enterprise search into Windows 7\" href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/integrating-enterprise-search-into-windows-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> up some info on using the OpenSearch features of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 to provide search integration into SharePoint.<\/p>\n<p>OpenSearch is a protocol for easily sending search queries and sharing the search results.\u00a0 Windows 7 and\u00a0 IE8 use OpenSearch to allow external sources of data to be searched directly from Windows as shown in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SharePointSearchinWindows711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"SharePointSearchinWindows71[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SharePointSearchinWindows711_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"SharePointSearchinWindows71[1]\" width=\"449\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally I think it\u2019s a really nice bit of functionality, it\u2019s something I use all time now I have it.\u00a0 So it\u2019s good news then that a couple of days ago Google <a title=\"Google Enterprise Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OfficialGoogleEnterpriseBlog\/~3\/16lsVwEjr84\/google-search-appliance-now-supports.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> support for OpenSearch on it\u2019s <a title=\"Google Search Appliances\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/enterprise\/search\/gsa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google Search Appliances (GSA)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve not seen these before they\u2019re essentially a server running Google indexing and search that you can plug into your network and use to provide search internally to your business.\u00a0 You basically pay for the number of documents you index.<\/p>\n<p>This new support will allow you to send search queries to a GSA and have the results displayed in Explorer or IE just as shown above.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/gsa-open-search-via-opensearch\" target=\"_blank\">detailed technical<\/a> info on the Google site and download the feature on the <a title=\"Google Enterprise Labs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/enterprise\/labs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise Labs<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added support for the OpenSearch protocol to its Google Search Appliances opening up federated search to Windows 7 and Internet Explorer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,429,100,428,48,179],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-google","tag-opensearch","tag-search","tag-search-appliance","tag-sharepoint","tag-windows-7","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}