Search Second Life anytime, from the Web
by Tateru Nino 
Sep 6th 2008 at 9:00AM
Filed under: News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds
Back when the new in-world, Google-appliance-powered search for Second Life was put together, it had one glaring absence. While the search was entirely Web-based, there was no actual form on the Web. Recently that's changed, with Linden Lab quietly replacing the search field on most of their Web pages with an interface to search.secondlife.com in a recent update.
While there's no front page for the site, it's certainly trivial enough to locate the search forms intended for Web use. Essentially, it's Second Life's internal search bundled up for browsers, even the classified advertising down the right hand side of the results -- though unless you're willing to launch the Second Life viewer for each classified advert, they're not very usable.
All in all, however, it's a tremendous convenience if you can't run the Second Life viewer right away, but still want to dig for something or someone on the Second Life Agni grid, or if you want to look up the UUID for a user (yourself or someone else).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Garn said on 11:48AM 9-06-2008
now if only you could view a lot of the stuff without logging in. I know there is a way to show profiles online but I can't remember how to do it lol
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Steel Halasy said on 1:16PM 9-06-2008
I believe the "official" entry to this page is the searchbox on the community page ( http://secondlife.com/community/ ), however it is useful to have the "blank search" page as well. Thanks!
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Pavig Lok said on 2:30AM 9-07-2008
/me wonders how easy it would be do make a firefox search engine plugin/thingie for this. I believe it's reasonably trivial... *potters*
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