Google Co-op 0.4 (Release candidate)

This is not a final release. Experimental releases should only be used for testing and development. Do not use these on production sites, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.

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Release Notes

Building A Linked Custom Search Engine with Tasty Bookmarks

In a Linked CSE the specification of the search engine is hosted on your website. Google retrieves the CSE specification from your website when your user searches in the CSE. This has several very important benefits:

• You can easily convert your Tasty Links to a Custom Search Engine.
• You can automatically generate any number of CSEs, each tuned to the particular page (Bookmark Folder) or as a response to a users query (Tasty view).
• You can easily update your Linked CSE definitions without pushing data to Google.
• There are no global, per user annotation limits.

You can now exploit the full power of your ideas to dynamically generate CSEs. This makes it easier to share annotations between CSEs.

Tasty Bookmarks generates two files for you:

• tasty-cseref: The CSE specification
• tasty-annotations: The Google Annotations (i.e. the sites you want to search)

This search engine will limit the sites to search to your current context, i.e. to the Bookmark Folder you are in and the keywords you filtered by.

caveats:

• You must not add links in the form http://plone.org the slash (/) at the end of the URL is mandantory so the link must be http://plone.org/.
• Avoid linking to pages, rather link to the directory i.e ommit the usual suspects index.html, index.php, home.html, default.asp etc. Do not link to http://www.unep.org/default.asp but to http://www.unep.org/ otherwise the annotation file will resrict your searches to just that page.
• You still have to create a (stored) CSE because you need the Identifier.

Demo

• http://caribbean.iwlearn.org/links/: Linked CSE
• http://caribbean.iwlearn.org/googlecoop: Stored CSE including all sites of the above linked CSE

Feature enhancements in this release

The following features are associated with this release:

#1: Linked CSE Support

Build a linked CSE from your Bookmarks

#2: Incoporate more options in controlpanel

For linked CSEs all the definitions of your searchengine are stored on your own site, so all options should be configurable TTP

Change log

• added more configuration options for linked cses
• corrected: getCseCrefJS did not return anything
• added support for linked CSEs with Tasty Bookmarks'
• some enhancements to support linked CSEs with tasty Bookmarks