Its a wonder you didn’t make a google search bar for localgovglossary.

I’d be tempted to re-use its definitions if I could access them via REST or SOAP or some other xml-like structure.

However, my google search in FF drops down and shortcuts to google (uk) google (fr), chambers dictionary, thesauri, wikipedia, google code search, amazon, yahoo, answers .com, weather.com, ebay and so on.

I wouldn’t be able to remember my own self-made short cuts to all these sites, and I find them terribly intuitive and easy to use.

Anyone wanting a specialist search can make a bookmark of the bit up to and including the = sign and enter something in the keyword field (say dp). Then type “dp searchterm” into the location bar and away you go…

Encouraging people to download and install stuff from many websites is not good.

All you need to do is create a page which takes a single argument and then “posts” it onto the search page.

/mysearch/index.htm?q=string

–> redirects to

/reasearch.htm

ie carefully frisk the GET values, maybe record the event, then turn those values into POSTS.

That way your mycroft box url can be as simple as:
/mysearch/?q=

I’m going to have to tinker to try and get the querystring version out instead.