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9rules Launches Search – I Launch Search Plugin

Sep 20, 2006 at 12:33am in Code, On the Web

Early yesterday, 9rules launched a Web 2.0 search engine. The new search engine dubbed 9rules Search, searches through 9rules’ database of insanely great member content and displays relevant articles alongside results from Flickr and YouTube. If there are no articles to display from 9rules members, the search engine will pull results from Technorati. Sounds like the perfect search mashup to me.

To make partaking in this awe-inspiring search engine even easier, I decided 9rules Search needed a Firefox search plugin. Instead of waiting for someone else to do one, I got on the ball and made one myself. You can download the plugin at Mozilla’s search website. Now great content is only a quick search away.

9rules Search in the Browser

9 Comments

  1. 1 Colin D. Devroe on Sep 20, 2006 at 8:36 am:

    This is cool, though it won’t work for me. I’m not sure why but it isn’t getting added to my list of engines.

  2. 2 Ronald Heft on Sep 20, 2006 at 8:45 am:

    Can you add search plugins for other sites?

  3. 3 Ronald Heft on Sep 20, 2006 at 8:50 am:

    Hmm, the link that I provided somehow doesn’t work. Try using this URL: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=9rules+search&category=all&country=all&language=all&submitform=Search&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes

  4. 4 Ronald Heft on Sep 20, 2006 at 11:21 am:

    Just so you know, there was a caching issue with the server. I made a minor change to the plugin shortly after uploading it and the site was trying to serve up the old version. The cache has since refreshed and everything should be working now.

  5. 5 Kyle Korleski on Sep 20, 2006 at 3:36 pm:

    Nice plugin, dude!

  6. 6 Canberraboy on Sep 22, 2006 at 12:16 am:

    Awesome plug-in, I have Technorati, Flickr, Yahoo, MSN, Google and now 9rules. Is there one for alexa as well?

  7. 7 Ronald Heft on Sep 22, 2006 at 12:29 am:

    Thanks. An Alexa one is available here:
    http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=alexa&category=all&country=all&language=all&submitform=Search&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes

  8. 8 josue on Nov 7, 2006 at 10:39 am:

    Dude this is awesome, thanks!

  9. 9 Ben on Nov 11, 2006 at 10:37 am:

    Very nice! Love it.

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