[OGo-Users] OGoUIElements for links to external people/companysearch engines

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

users@opengroupware.org wrote: 
> > after I created the OGoAddressMapLink UIElement, I thought it would be 
nice 
> > to have something similar just for companies and persons. 
> > For the external link to a map service, just one URL was good.
> > For external links to people/companies I'd go and create a drop down 
box, so 
> > that the user can select an external search engine, to lookup further 
> > information of the contact/company.
> > I'd like to include some "sane" default search engines. 
> > I'd start with www.spock.com, www.pipl.com, and www.yasni.de.
> > Any idea for a good company search engine that I could setup as Default?
> 
> Google phone book is the only one I can think of that might provide a
Ah, interesting, I'll take a look.
> useful result;  of course the map provides the phone & address
> (usually).  I don't think anything is going to work for individuals.
I thought it could be interesting for some HR department, to search for 
applicants or for whatever reason. I actually found some people I was 
searching for on yasni.de.
Or maybe for a sales person, to find sth. about a customer, dunno, 
possibilities to use these search engines are there more than I can imagine.

Or for companies, maybe a stock exchange page or sth. like that might be 
interesting for people from other companies, or the CIA world factbook, I 
did not took a look yet, whether it is possible to look up companies there.

cheers
Sebastian