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Top 10 Searches on Mycroft

There is also a list of the top 25 downloads.

What is the Mycroft Project?

The Mycroft project provides a collection of Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins (15395 at the last count) for your web browser. Sherlock is supported by Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla SeaMonkey and other browsers based on the Mozilla core.
OpenSearch is supported by Mozilla Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7.

The name Mycroft refers to Mycroft Holmes, the brother of Sherlock Holmes in the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle - The Mycroft Project originates from the Sherlock standard.

What is a Search Engine Plugin?

A search engine plugin allows you to access a search engine directly from your browser. In Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 you use the search bar at the top right. Microsoft appears to prefer the term Search Provider but there is no difference in function. There are also tools to add search capability to right click menus and other locations. If you want to know more, read the documentation.

Note: If you are looking for browser plug-ins go to PluginDoc.