Have your WebSite recognized as a Search Engine by Chrome

google-chrome, opensearch, search-engine, seo, web-applications

Solution

Yes, you're on the right track there. It's OpenSearch you're looking for. They have some how-to guides and tutorials on how to implement this on your own website.

Problem

If I start typing stackov.. in Chrome I can see something like 'Press Tab to search stackoverflow.com'. SO is basically recognized as a Search Engine. Do you have any idea of how to implement the same sort of feature in our WebApp? I think it should be related with OpenSearch ``` <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Stack Overflow" href="http://sstatic.net/so/opensearch.xml"> ``` thanks edit: I think it should be just a matter of specifing an xml defined in this way (http://sstatic.net/so/opensearch.xml) ``` <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"> <ShortName>Stack Overflow</ShortName> <Description>Search stackoverflow.com for answers to your programming questions</Description> <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding> <Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">http://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico</Image> <Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://stackoverflow.com/search?q={searchTerms}"></Url> </OpenSearchDescription> ``` and this is the URL that will be used. ``` http://stackoverflow.com/search?q={searchTerms} ``` searchTerms will be populated with the string you typed-in in chrome

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