Search Connectors are small elements that could be helping us immensely when trying to search for information from the Internet, but from our Windows 7 desktop. Although this term is very little known, the usefulness of knowing them is really important, since these Search Connectors offer us a fast route to the content of a specific website.
So you can understand a little more about what we will try to show with these Search Connectors, in this article we will mention a few tips and tricks when it comes to do certain searches on our website for "Vinagre Asesino", an environment that you can enjoy within your Windows 7 File Explorer.
What are Search Connectors and what are they for?
The Search Connectors they are small scripts where a simple code commands our Windows 7 File Explorer search within the content of a web page; When talking about File Explorer, it could be said that the similarities are quite great in terms of what these offer us Search Connectors. This is because this environment is generally used to try to find files or documents on our local hard drives (or in a network environment).
If we integrate the Search Connectors within the File Explorer, its functions do not vary at all, since we will also have the possibility of use your search engine but, for a specific topic that may be part of a web page.
As we suggested at the beginning, for this tutorial we will use the information from Assassin Vinegar. To achieve this we recommend the reader to follow the following sequential steps:
- Click the Start Menu Button or press the Windows key.
- In the search space write «memo pad«.
- Copy and Paste the code that we will propose a little later.
- Select «Archive»And then select«Save as…«.
- Name this file to «Killer Vinegar«.
- In Files of type select «All the files«.
- Enter the following suggested name for this file: «VinegarAssassin.osdx«
With these simple steps that we have suggested, we will have already created one of the first Search Connectors with which we will experiment, same that in a primordial way personalized to the Vinagre Asesino blog; If we go to the directory where we save the file, there we will find it with a magnifying glass icon, which refers to the searches that will be carried out within an environment other than the Internet browser.
Now the Search Connectors They can be integrated into the File Explorer in 2 different ways, these being the following:
- With double click. If we double-click on the file, a window will notify us that this new search engine will be added to the Windows File Explorer.
- As context menu. The 2nd alternative makes use of the contextual menu that appears when we click with the right button of our mouse on said file. There we would only have to select the option that says «Create Search Connector».
Once we have proceeded with these steps we can open our File Explorer; we had previously talked about Favorites in Windows 7, now having to pay attention to this area, since there is the place where these Search Connectors.
If we look closely, there we will find a new item that has the name of «Killer Vinegar». If we click on it, apparently absolutely nothing will happen; everything will change if we write a word in the search space of this file explorer (the search connector is selected). As an example, we could write the word "Windows 7".
We will be able to observe that a large number of results have appeared towards the right side of the bar, which refer to the different articles that contain information about Windows 7 within Vinagre Asesino. If we activate the small icon that is located towards the upper right, the content of the selected result will appear in the joint area.
If you want to use these Search Connectors on your personal website, you just have to change the URL of Vinagre Asesino to your own in the code we used as an example. In this regard, when you use it in the "notepad", you must make sure that before saving it, the "Word wrapping" is not activated to prevent other characters from being present.
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