I like the new Google Subscribed Links feature. It has the potential to be quite handy. The idea is that there is a store of information which you can trust to provide additional value to a plain search in Google. The end result works like some of their specialized searches like calculator, movie listings, weather, and so on. The neat part of course is that anyone can create these new databases to extend someone else’s searches. So I made one with a bit of content from the PowerShell help file for one cmdlet: Get-Content.
You can try it if you like. Just click on this button, and once you ok the addition, perform a search.
Note this is just a simple example. They allow you to upload an XML file with a bunch of keywords. You can also specify a URL which will be reloaded from time to time. And we know that Powershell is great with XML, and you can manipulate the help files programmatically…so therefore…
Links for more info:
- Developer Guide
- Manage links you have created
- Control which links you subscribe to
Here is what the XML source of the above looks like:
1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
2: <Results>
3: <ResultSpec id="PowerShell Cmdlet Help: Get-Content">
4: <Query>
5: <![CDATA[[PowerShell Cmdlet Help: Get-Content]]]>
6: </Query>
7: <Response format="answer">
8: <Output name="title">
9: <![CDATA[PowerShell Cmdlet Help: Get-Content]]>
10: </Output>
11: <Output name="more_url">
12: <![CDATA[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978599.aspx]]>
13: </Output>
14: <Output name="text1">
15: <![CDATA[Gets the content of the item at the specified location.]]>
16: </Output>
17: <Output name="text2">
18: <![CDATA[ex: C:\\PS>get-content -Path C:\\Chapters\\chapter1.txt]]>
19: </Output>
20: <Output name="text3">
21: <![CDATA[ex: C:\\PS>get-content c:\\Logs\\Log060912.txt -totalcount 50 | set-content samp...]]>
22: </Output>
23: </Response>
24: </ResultSpec>
25: <DataObject id="PowerShell Cmdlet Help: Get-Content" type="PowerShell Cmdlet Help: Get-Content">
26: <QueryName value="get-content" />
27: </DataObject>
28: </Results>
What’s in your XML file?
I just pasted it above.