How to add google chrome omnibox-search support for your site?
Chrome usually handles this through user preferences. (via chrome://settings/searchEngines)
However, if you'd like to implement this specifically for your users, you need to add a OSD (Open Search Description) to your site.
Making usage of Google Chrome's OmniBox [TAB] Feature for/on personal website?
You then add this XML file to the root of your site, and link to it in your <head> tag:
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Stack Overflow" href="/opensearch.xml" />Now, visitors to your page will automatically have your site's search information placed into Chrome's internal settings at chrome://settings/searchEngines.
OpenSearchDescription XML Format Example
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"><ShortName>Your website name (shorter = better)</ShortName><Description>Description about your website search here</Description><InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding><Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">your site favicon</Image><Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://www.yoursite.com/search/?query={searchTerms}"/></OpenSearchDescription>The important part is the <url> item. {searchTerms} will be replaced with what the user searches for in the omnibar.
Here's a link to OpenSearch for more information.
Implementing omnibox support with search suggestions
The answer given by @element119 works perfect but here is a slightly tweaked code to support search suggestions as well as Mozilla Support.
Follow the steps below to implement omni box support for your site.
- Save the following code as search.xml
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"> <script/> <ShortName>Site Name</ShortName> <Description>Site Description (eg: Search sitename)</Description> <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding> <Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">Favicon url</Image> <Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&q={searchTerms}" /> <Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://yoursite.com/?s={searchTerms}" /> <SearchForm>http://yoursite.com/</SearchForm></OpenSearchDescription>Upload search.xml to the root of your site.
Add the following meta tag to your site's
<head>tag
<link rel="search" href="http://www.yoursite.com/search.xml" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="You site name"/>Make sure to replace the domain urls with your domain.