Here at Adobe I have to deal with multiple projects and products. One of them has to do with help, learning, and learning resources.

So while I was playing around with the Adobe Help Viewer today, I realized 2 things:

1. The search results (at least) is built using Spry
2. You can modify the search results page and add results from other sources

So I said - wow! I can split this in 2, and add some results from Google on the right side of the results screen!

So I opened the results.html file from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Viewer\1.1\ and I started modifying it.

I modified the width and the float for the results list (in red is what I added):

Line 353: <div id="nav_content" width="46" style="width: 46%; float: left">

And added a new DIV at the end of the file, just before </body>:

Starting from line 463

<div style="width: 50%; float: left; border-left: 1px solid black; padding: 0 2px">
<p style="margin-top: 8px; font-weight: bold">Search results from Yahoo!:</p>
<script>
      var dsGG = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query={dsProducts::@name} {dsQuery::query}&results=20", "/ResultSet/Result");
</script>
<ol spry:region="dsGG" spry:repeatchildren="dsGG">
      <li style="margin-bottom: 10px;">
            <a href="{Url}" target="_blank">{Title}</a>
            <div>{Summary}</div>
      </li>
</ol>
</div>
</body>
</html>

As you can probably see, I ended up using Yahoo! search, not Google, because Google does not export XML results unless you have a client code or someth.

And the result is:

Bogdan

P.S. Ignore the CSS layout - it is just a proof of concept

P.S.2. It only works on Windows. I did not had the time to make it work on a MAC. Again, it's just a proof of concept