Jason Dunn
11-03-2009, 06:15 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.istartedsomething.com/flickrsearch/' target='_blank'>http://www.istartedsomething.com/flickrsearch/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"What is this? A new feature of Windows 7 is "Search Federation" - the ability to search remote document repositories such as Flickr through the native Windows search interface. This is a custom Windows 7 "Search Connector" which can be installed to communicate to the Flickr OpenSearch translator implemented on this site."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1257267831.usr1.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></p><p>I was reading the one and only computer magazine that I subscribe to this morning - Maximum PC - and they mentioned this tip for Windows 7 that would allow you to directly search Flickr for images from within Windows Explorer. It seemed like a neat idea, and a quick Google search brought me to <a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/flickrsearch/" target="_blank">the site that has created the tool for making this possible</a>. I installed the tool, and typed in my first query - dogs - and waited. The result? An error message stating <em>"The location cannot be searched because it no longer exists or is temporarily unavailable."</em> Well that's no fun! I cracked open the connector bits in notepad, found the search URL that was being used, and tested it with a hard-cored search string. It worked. So I'm a bit baffled as to why this won't work for me. Anyone else have better luck with this than me?</p>