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Our own Jacob Brunson has added OpenSearch support to LDSSearch.com. OpenSearch, as Jacob points out, is an open format for the sharing of search results. This means that you can use 3rd party search engines like Amazon’s A9.com to get results from ldssearch.com.

UPDATE: On his personal blog Jacob discusses several possibilities for OpenSearch from a religious perspective. For example, it would be great if the Church’s new Gospel Library supported OpenSearch.

The Church has just released a beta version of its new online Gospel Library. To try it, visit beta.lds.org and click on Gospel Library. It provides easy access to the scriptures, General Conference addresses, magazines, and lesson manuals. It no longer uses frames and each article has its own URL, which will be important for linking and search engine visibility. The site also highlights a powerful search feature that can search across all content and then filter by type.

Congrats to everyone at the Church who helped in the release of this new Gospel Library. This will be a powerful addition to lds.org when it goes live.

Aaron Curtis has created a Google Custom Search Engine for searching official LDS Church web sites. It includes lds.org, mormon.org, josephsmith.net, familysearch.org, providentliving.org, and international Church websites (like the site for the Mormon church in Australia, for example).

Also, the More Good Foundation operates a search engine called LDSsearch.com, which indexes pages that are faithful to the Church. It should be a “safe” place to search when looking for information about the Church.

It would be great to get Firefox search plugins for both of these search engines.

Link: Aaron’s LDS search

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