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Microsoft is again moving the OpenSearch protocol forward. First with IE7, and now their enterprise Search Server 2008, which is using OpenSearch as the foundation for their Federated Search Connectors. The most interesting part to me is what Microsoft is doing to extend the power of the OpenSearch description document format. They’ve defined the Location [...]

Perhaps one of the most interesting, but as yet most under-noticed, bits of technology to come out of Google in the past year is Google Co-op Custom Search Engines. Google CSE’s give users the power to create a search engine specifically tailored to any topic they can imagine. A few of us at work got [...]

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to solve the [...]

The Live Search team just launched a major revision of their innovative Live Search Macros product. Zach Gutt (a super nice guy on Microsoft’s search team) writes all about the new features on the Live Search WebLog. Be sure to read his full post here. Search Macros are a clever technique that gives the user [...]