February 03, 2006

if ('OpenSearch' == 'OpenMicrosoft') then ...

Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer 7

Do you own a site? Promote your favorite search engines (including your own, if you have one) on your site with Internet Explorer 7! All you need is to run the following script on your page: window.external.AddSearchProvider(‘URL’) Where ‘URL’ points to an OpenSearch description document, which will tell Internet Explorer 7 how to add the search engine to the browser.

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else return "to your (pipe) dream state... ;)";

/// for those wondering why I 'ellipsed' my way through the
/// 'then' conditional following the boolean test...

/// please re-read the titled test, and, if necessary, compare the
/// content of the above text to understand the relationship to
/// the OpenSearch comparison. Ahh... There ya go! :) No need to
/// evaluate the statement following 'then' when the test failed
/// before it even began, now is there :D
///
/// oh, and for those about to suggest I forgot my curly brackets...
/// Do you see two or more lines on any of the conditional shifts?
/// NOTE: If yes, ya think maybe it's time to kiss
/// the bottle good night? There ya go...
/// Good work Al! I'm so proud!
/// No, not enough to celebrate...
/// Put it back down! ;)

So when I first saw this, for like 1/2 a second I thought, "you kn" (thats how far I got into the "you know, maybe MS *IS* changing" statement before realizing...

"Oh wait... When your not the monopoly stake holder of any given market, and a monopoly shareholder actually exists, you don't have much choice BUT to be open, now do you!" ;)

Speaking of which... In regards to Scoble's "Google (which, yes, does have a monopoly share of the search market)." comment from a few weeks back...

While I'll agree with the notion that Google owns the search market, I'm not so sure its a monopoly share. But setting that aside, let's say that it is...

The only thing "forcing" me to use Google is habit... There's like a billion and a half choices OTHER than Google, each one of them easily accessible by simply changing the habit of typing 'g o o g l e ctrl + enter' when I need to find something on the internet. *IF* it were to turn out that, in fact, they are a monopoly, to break up such a monopoly would mean breaking off each of our fingers and/or severing the nerve fibers/bundles between our fingers and brain.

"Hey, I'm cool with a Google monopoly...

Anybody else gotta problem with one?

"Anyone... ?

"Anyone... ?

"..."

I rest my case ;)

NiceTry.NEXT! :D