Drupalzilla | Drupal SEO, Drupal Tutorials. Google Powered Site Search with jQuery. Martin Angelov By far one of the most requested features by Tutorialzine’s readers, is building a site-wide search. One way to do it, is to build it yourself from the ground up. That is, to use a server-side language like PHP and run search queries on your database, displaying the results to the user. Another way is to use the services of the one search engine that already knows everything about everyone. Yep, you guessed it. In this tutorial we are using Google’s AJAX Search API, to create a custom search engine, with which you can search for web results, images, video and news items on your site.
Important update (October 2014): Google has canceled the API that this search engine uses, so this script will no longer work. The HTML Lets start with the HTML markup. Search.html <! In the body section, we have the main container element – the #page div. Google Powered Site Search The CSS The CSS styles reside in styles.css. Styles.css – Part 1 styles.css – Part 2 styles.css – Part 3 The jQuery. Mahalo. Inquisitor ~ instant search. Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines. Which search engine when? Sometimes you’re not always going to be sure as to which search engine is best for the job.
In this section I’ve tried to put together a collection of search engines which do specific things - find images, social media search and so on. Hopefully you’ll find one or two engines that do the job for you! Major types of search engine Keyword Search engines You know what you're looking for, and can describe it with some key words or phrases. Google is always a good bet, since it has the largest index Yahoo Search is the second most popular keyword search engine Bing may provide results if the other two don't work DuckDuckGo is generally seen as the major competitor outside the big 3 Exalead is a good choice and makes a change from the big 3 Index or Directory based search engines These search engines arrange data in hierachies from broad to narrow. The Open Directory Project provides access to 16 main categories Multi or Meta search engines Goofram for Google and Wolfram Alpha.