Custom OpenSearch Functionality for Your Website
Adding a customized OpenSearch-powered search engine to your site is a great way to foster site awareness and reinforce brand identity, while providing a tool that will benefit your visitors and improve the usability of your site.
Implementing OpenSearch functionality is extremely easy, completely free, and requires zero maintenance. In this article, I provide an easy, 3-step tutorial on how to add OpenSearch functionality to your site in less than five minutes. After the tutorial, we will look at the many different ways to customize your OpenSearch implementation, including examples, search options, and much more.
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