Windows 7 Search Connectors

One of the features of Windows 7 is their Federated Search, which allows you to search online websites and databases inside Windows Explorer, a local mashup of the Internet and your computer. Channel 10 has posted some great information and connectors you can use to search sites like Microsoft’s support section, flickr and more.

Here is a post on Channel 10 on How to Install & Use Search Connectors in Windows 7 and it includes links to a twitter connector, a friendfeed connector, this zip includes search connectors for Amazon’s full catalog, eBay, PriceGrabber, Coupons and Discounts, Online Shopping, The Geeks Social Network, and Lockergnome, and a link to Redmon Pie’s connector pack. They are painfully easy to use, install and search from any Windows Explorer window. That’s it!

Create your own using a simple OSDX file, an example of the code is posted here.

All you have to do is put in your RSS search feed url and double click and you are searching it in Explorer. This post has a connector to allow you to search support.microsoft.com, download it here and this post has a link to a flickr search connector, dowload it .