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How is this done?...

Create a text file
Rename that to searchenginename.xml

Insert this text:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
	<ShortName>NAME FOR SEARCH ENGINE</ShortName>
	<Description>DESCRIPTION OF SEARCH ENGINE</Description>
	<InputEncoding>utf-8</InputEncoding>
	<Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,AAABAAEAEBAAAGIBBERISHENSUES</Image>
	<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://www.searchsite.com/search/?q={searchTerms}"></Url>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Add a 'link' in an html page on your site (if you want to distribute it).
```
<link title="my site" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="search" href="http://www.mysite.com/searchenginename.xml">
```
OR ... use a bit of javascript like this:
<a href="#" onclick="window.external.AddSearchProvider('http://www.yoursite.com/searchenginename.xml');return false;">Your Link</a>
Upload the xml file you just created to that location.
Browse to the html page just like you did to this one... presto change-o!

Obviously you needed a website for some parts of this but you could probably make do without if you just created an html page and loaded it in your browser.

To get your image code visit: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data and paste http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico into the supplied textbox. Check off base64, submit and then copy the output string of "gibberish" (really a base64 encoded version of your favicon file) and paste it into the spot in your file.