Auto-discovery of search engines

[jamescridland]

Here's how this works in Chrome...

• Visit a website with search auto-discovery enabled, like podnews.net
• Have a look at a few pages there.
• Then, type "podn" then the TAB button.
• You'll notice that Chrome says "Search Podnews..." and then gives you a simple method of searching the website.

This uses an opensearch XML file, and is advertised in the website by using this:

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="https://podnews.net/opensearch.xml" title="podnews.net" />

...and the XML file referenced looks like this (with the XML declaration removed):

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
   <ShortName>Podnews podcasting news</ShortName>
   <Description>Daily news about the global podcasting and on-demand audio industry. Curated by James Cridland [email protected]</Description>
   <Tags>podtrac NPR</Tags>
   <Contact>[email protected]</Contact>
   <Url type="text/html" template="https://podnews.net/search?q={searchTerms}"/>
 </OpenSearchDescription>

I think this is in Chromium - is there a reason why it's been removed from Vivaldi? My muscle memory keeps invoking it way too often...

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@jamescridland said in Auto-discovery of search engines:

I think this is in Chromium - is there a reason why it's been removed from Vivaldi? My muscle memory keeps invoking it way too often...

Vivaldi uses a different UI and unfortunately completely ignores chromium search settings.