The widget is fully customizable to your preferences and you can get the code Here: AOS Featured Sites Widget. 

Example:

As a response I just installed a new caching feature in the installation xml pages that greatly improves the installation speeds.

This feature will automatically search the root directory of your site for either favicon.ico or favicon.png and if found, will add that icon to your visitors browser search plugin menu.

Our installation page has already been upgraded with this feature, so existing users of our Browser Search Plugin Widgets will not need to re-create their widget.

To ensure that new and existing widget users can take advantage of this service, please adhere to the following requirements:

Search Icon Auto-Discovery Requirements:

• File type: .png or .ico image formats
• File Dimensions: 16×16 pixels
• File Name: favicon
• File Location: In the root directory of your site.
  (ex: www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico)

We will be adding support for custom icon locations and names in the near future.

*NOTE: Internet Explorer DOES NOT support icons in their browser search menu.  So this feature will only work in FireFox and Flock Browsers.

Our “on-track” plan had us serving 1 million badges by the 2 month mark, so we’re slightly behind that goal, but we’re still happy with the results.

Thanks Guy!

The List is a running blog of featured sites that you can add to your browser’s built in search function.
We started The List to show off some of the featured sites currently using our Search Plugin service and to display sites that we believe would be useful to our users. 

We currently have a select list of sites to start the blog going and are planning on adding at least 2 new additional sites per day moving forward.  Some submitted by our users, some we found ourselves.

If you have a chance, hop on over to http://thelist.addoursearch.com
While you’re there, subscribe to our RSS feed, Get Updates by Email, or follow us on Twitter.

With the adoption of the OpenSearch Format into major browsers like FireFox and Internet Explorer, it provides users with a way to circumvent the major search engines all together and search directly from the source.  This feature is still in it’s infancy, so it probably isn’t on the radar screens at this time. But, as more browsers begin to include the OpenSearch format in their feature list and more site owners realize the potential it brings, the trend will begin to get more recognition from the major players.

Granted we do have a vested interest in this trend and hope that Addoursearch.com can be the catalyst to bring this function into more of a main stream search and marketing channel, but we do believe that this has a great potential to cause at least a ripple in the search arena.

Addoursearch.com is now compatible with Firefox 3 (RC3) as of 11pm today.

We’ve tested it using Firefox’s Release Candidate 3 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS 10.4.

As a response to some user feedback, we made a small change to the Installation page.  We’ve added a “learn more” link near the header to help explain to users a little more about what the service does.
We’re hoping this will improve the installation rate.

Screen Shot of the change:

The Flock approach to open search is a little different than Internet Explorer or Firefox, in that it doesn’t seem like you can change the default search engine on the fly.

But, it’s an interesting approach and a cool little browser none-the-less.