Support Windows Search Connector

[ekt]

wouldn't be cool supporting this feature?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4385/sea ... onnectors/

I didn't investigated (and honestly just discovered it) but one should be able to generate its own .OSDX file

[therube]

Just what, where, for what would one being searching & how does Everything tie into this?

[therube]

I would like to be able to right click on files in folders and search from them on the internet.

On, so that's what you're looking to do.
Search the internet from context menu in Windows Explorer?

[therube]

Call it Internet Search or Yahoo Search, whatever works for you.
Change to your wanted browser & search engine. Adjusted as needed.
Googlesearch.bat needs to be somewhere, so where ever you put it adjust the second REG ADD line to coincide.

If more then one file is selected in Everything (or Windows Explorer or whatever) ... oh, I haven't gotten that far yet.

This is only set to search for "files", though you could do similar for "directories".

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from a command line (might need Admin level, not sure?):

REG ADD "HKLM\software\Classes\*\shell\Google Search" /d "Google Search"

REG ADD "HKLM\software\Classes\*\shell\Google Search\Command" /d "C:\BIN\Googlesearch.bat ""%1"""

Googlesearch.bat

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set xGOOGLESEARCH=%~nx1
cmd /c C:\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe -url http://www.google.com/search?q=%xGOOGLESEARCH%

[ekt]

I would like to be able to right click on files in folders and search from them on the internet.

On, so that's what you're looking to do.
Search the internet from context menu in Windows Explorer?

no. nothing like that.

I thought one could define an .OSDX file, which would integrate Everything inside Windows Explorer.
You know, when in Windows Explorer you press F3. An horrible/disfunctional search box appears today: my hope was that 'Search Connectors' were a way to inject better search engine inside Explorer.

Further bit of reading tells me 'Search Connectors' is not what I thought. For start they need some sort of web-service backend. And they seem focused on 'web searches' rather than 'local searches'.

So my poor understanding of 'Search Connectors' led me to the OP