[Developers] Visual Search support for Freebase

[Scott Blomquist]

I've created an Acre app that implements the Visual Search extension to
OpenSearch so that IE8 (and hopefully the other major browsers shortly) can
serve up images along with freebase-suggest style query completion. You can
see a picture of it in action, or add it to your browser at
http://visualsearch.sblom.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/.

 I've tested the hell out of it in Firefox 3.0 and IE8 RC1 on Vista, but
don't know about Chrome or Safari.

I've got a request in to have it added to the IE8 Search Provider gallery (
http://www.ieaddons.com/en/searchproviders/), although I'm not sure they'll
approve me because the URL doesn't look very official.

MetaWeb, should be very little work for you to update
http://www.freebase.com/opensearch to include a new line that says <Url type
="*application/x-suggestions+xml*" template="*
http://visualsearch.sblom.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/suggest?format=xml&q={searchTerms}
*" />. It will be ignored for now by any browsers other than IE8. It'll make
your Microsoft users feel a little more loved than they do today.

Might clone the acre app first so I can't accidentally break anything.
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