Ask HN: How can I add my own search engine to my browser?

3 points by vrypan 7 years ago | 2 comments

Let's say I created my own search engine. How do I add it to Chrome, Firefox and Safari? Is there an API it should expose? Some special markup in the HTML results? Anything else I should know?

mindcrime 7 years ago |

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch

and

https://mycroftproject.com/

vrypan 7 years ago | |

Thanks!