[Developers] Visual Search support for Freebase

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

Scott Blomquist wrote:
> 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} 
> <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.

I love it!

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Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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