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 Example of a web page which offers to add a new search plugin. With Firefox, the symbol of the currently selected search engine becomes bluish. The user can add the search engine offered by that page by clicking the triangle. | |
| Internet media type | application/opensearchdescription+xml |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Amazon.com |
| Initial release | March 15, 2005 |
| Latest release | 1.1 Draft 6[1] December 6, 2005 |
| Type of format | Web syndication |
| Extended from | RSS |
| Open format? | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 |
| Website | github |
OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow the publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. Introduced in 2005, it is a way for websites and search engines to publish search results in a standard and accessible format.
OpenSearch was developed by Amazon.com subsidiary A9 and the first version, OpenSearch 1.0, was unveiled by Jeff Bezos at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on 15 March 2005.[2][3] Draft versions of OpenSearch 1.1 were released during September and December 2005. The OpenSearch specification is licensed by A9 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.[4]
- ^ "OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 6". GitHub. 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "Speaker Jeffrey P. Bezos". O'Reilly Media. 2005. Archived from the original on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ Werner, Vogels (15 Mar 2005). "OpenSearch at A9". allthingsdistributed.com. Archived from the original on 13 Mar 2021. Retrieved 9 Mar 2021.
- ^ "LICENSE.txt". GitHub. 2018-05-31. Retrieved 2020-05-21.