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Amazon Hacks

by Paul Bausch
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Add an Amazon Sidebar Search to Mozilla

Mozilla’s built-in search engine sidebar provides a unique way to organize search results from several sources. Using Amazon’s API you can add Amazon as a source with a few quick steps.

The Amazon Web Services API has opened up a direct door to Amazon’s catalog. Developers can now search and browse Amazon programmatically, and reformat search results in any way they see fit.

Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org) is an alternative web browser that has been designed from the ground up to be an application platform for working with the Web. Mozilla’s sidebar offers a way to search several different search engines. For example, Mozilla comes with Google and dmoz.org installed in the sidebar, as you see in Figure 1-20.

Mozilla sidebar search engine selection

Figure 1-20. Mozilla sidebar search engine selection

With one search field, you can search these sites individually or mix the results from both at the same time—all the while keeping the results separate from the main browser window. It’s a new way to search that removes the problem of paging back and forth between search results, or trying to keep track of several open windows.

The Mozilla-Search plug-in interface allows you to add your own entry to the list of search engines available. Although Google and dmoz.org are there when you install Mozilla, that doesn’t mean your search engine selection can’t grow. It just takes some understanding ...

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