April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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247 - ADD A SEARCH ENGINE TO YOUR HOME PAGE
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A CSE can be restricted to search through a specic site (that is, a domain or subdomain), but you can’t
restrict it to search specic pages or folders only. If your Google Page Creator site collects several unrelated
pages, it might make sense to add a new site via the “Create a new site” link on the Page Creator dashboard.
This way, you can pick a separate subdomain.
Now it’s time to add a search box to your site. Switch over to Google Page Creator at http://pages.
google.com and click on your page to launch the editor. Select an element of your page where you
want to add the search box. I’m using a righthand navigation bar element. Click “edit html” below,
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Setting up the Custom Search Engine
If your site is indexed in Google, you can go about setting up a Custom Search Engine for it. Point
your browser to http://google.com/cse/ and click the Create a Custom Search Engine button. You
will now be asked to provide details like the name for your search engine or its description. Provide
the elds as requested, but do not enter any value in the “Search engine keywords” eld.
The next crucial part of this form is to provide your domain in the “Sites to search” text eld, similar
to what is shown in Figure 10-16. With this value ...
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