Dan Appleman takes the .NET focused custom search engine idea one step further by grabbing a great domain name for his search engine. Now why didn’t I think of that! Sometimes that’s all it takes between a search engine that will get used alot (his) and one that won't (mine). I'd be happy to throw my support over to his, though I’m keeping my baby. The one key difference is I plan to leave my search engine open for others to contribute sites. Perhaps the two will complement each other. And no, the domain name is not the only reason. This guy *is*...
In response to question about integrating my custom search engine with the browser, Oran left a comment with a link to a post on how to implement searching your FogBugz database in your browser via the OpenSearch provider, which is supported by Firefox 2.0 and IE7. So I went ahead and used this as a guide to implementing OpenSearch for my custom search engine on my blog. When you visit my blog, you should notice that the the search icon in the top left corner of your browser is highlighted (screenshot from Firefox 2). Click on the down arrow and...