[EN] How to add your own search provider in IE7

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I'm not sure if you noticed that at below URL

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx

where generally you can add some custom predefined search providers for IE7 you can also create your own custom search provider.

Quick test with Polish news&media portal called Onet.eu resolved in below Xml which is indeed search provider definition:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="https://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/ ">

<ShortName>Onet.EU</ShortName>

<Description>Onet.EU provider</Description>

<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>

<Url type="text/html" template="https://szukaj.onet.pl/query.html?qt={searchTerms} " />

</OpenSearchDescription>

Simple, huh? :)