Comments on: RedMonk + Google Co-op + OpenSearch = Search Plugin for Firefox

By: People Over Process » Blog Archive » Screencast: Creating your own Firefox Search Plugin

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:46:00 +0000

[...] Sometime ago, I promised Dennis that I’d record a screencast of how I created the RedMonk Firefox search plugin. On this day of learning to make screencasts then, here it is: [...]

By: People Over Process » Blog Archive » Screencast: adding RedMonk Search to FireFox

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:37:07 +0000

[...] I’ve finally gotten around to teaching myself how to do and publish screencasts. I’ll have another post on the topic later. For now, here’s the first screencast, adding the RedMonk Search Plugin to Firefox: [...]

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:15:56 +0000

excellent idea Cote - look forward to it.

By: cote

cote — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:05:22 +0000

Dennis: ah, I see. Well, I made a Google Co-op account, did a sample search, and then untangled the URL and the search parameters from the resulting Google URL to put into the XML.

What I outta do is make a screen cast of it. How’s abouts thats?

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » New RedMonk only Search and RedMonk Search Toolbar

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:29:52 +0000

[...] Great great work from Cote. [...]

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:45:28 +0000

Cote - I got the file, I’m after *how* you generated the code between the URL tags so you could insert into the XML file. I understand everything else. Reason: I’m after spreading some search goodness and showing folk how they can do it for themselves seems a reasonable idea. This was the point I got stuck and went ‘uh?’

By: cote

cote — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:39:51 +0000

No problem, my bean counting friend ;)

The “code” that glues all this together is a small XML file that you can get here: http://www.redmonk.com/cote/redmonk-open-search.xml.

That said, The way you add it to FireFox is to go to my blog page and then click the down arrow in the FireFox searh bar. When you do this, as shown in the above screenshot, you should be given the option to “Add RedMonk Search.” This will use that XML file to add the RedMonk scoped search to your search bar.

If that doesn’t work, comment back, and I’ll do something else, like record a screen cast or, if I’ve misunderstood the question, answer the right question ;)

As a side note, it is a little silly to have this on just my blog. Perhaps we’ll move it up to the top level and/or the header that’s in all our blogs.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:26:00 +0000

Where/how did you generate the code that goes between the URL tags please? I can see code for the Google search widget but not this piece which would put it in the FF search engine pull-down. (Gimme a break - I’m a bean counter by trade, not a code monkey!!)

By: james governor

james governor — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:35:34 +0000

tres sweet. this post gave me the warm and fuzzies and no mistake. great job. i will post on this in the am.

By: Harish TM

Harish TM — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:09:41 +0000

Great stuff, why not have a wiki where people can add sites along with why they think it should be there. I understand you are looking at a niche search engine but that can be achieved with the option of narrowing down the search.

Also you might be interested in this ( http://zooie.wordpress.com/ ) work…