{"id":1623,"date":"2007-03-07T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2007\/03\/07\/better-searching-with-live-search-and-opensearch-discovery\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:30:21","slug":"better-searching-with-live-search-and-opensearch-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/better-searching-with-live-search-and-opensearch-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Searching with Live Search and OpenSearch Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2006\/02\/08\/528077.aspx\">updated<\/a> my blog to take advantage of Internet Explorer 7 by providing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensearch.org\/Specifications\/OpenSearch\/1.1\">OpenSearch discovery<\/a> document for my blog. Since then I&#8217;ve made some changes, such as moving the OpenSearch discovery document to be hosted on this site to accommodate for differences in downtime with its previous host, and corrected my text for the <span style=\"font-family:Consolas\">ShortName<\/span> element.\n<\/p>\n<p>Most recently I have hidden the search box exposed by Community Server to draw focus to the much more powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/siteowner\">Live Search Box<\/a> I also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2006\/11\/03\/live-search-box.aspx\">added<\/a> sometime back. Now you can use all the power of Live Search to search not just the blog posts, but comments and attachments as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>I have also made everything related to search consistent with the <span style=\"font-family:Consolas\">ShortName<\/span> text, since in some other scenarios the <span style=\"font-family:Consolas\">LongName<\/span> gets truncated. I have employed the use of a <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.live.com\/default.aspx?l=4\">Live Search macro<\/a> across all searches to add a button to Live Search as shown in the screenshot thumbnail below.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/archive\/blogs\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/heaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2007\/03\/OpenSearch.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back I updated my blog to take advantage of Internet Explorer 7 by providing an OpenSearch discovery document for my blog. Since then I&#8217;ve made some changes, such as moving the OpenSearch discovery document to be hosted on this site to accommodate for differences in downtime with its previous host, and corrected my text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-customizations"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Sometime back I updated my blog to take advantage of Internet Explorer 7 by providing an OpenSearch discovery document for my blog. Since then I&#8217;ve made some changes, such as moving the OpenSearch discovery document to be hosted on this site to accommodate for differences in downtime with its previous host, and corrected my text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}