Chapter 16
Building a Mobile Search Page
In This Chapter
Finding and using search engine utility software
Defining search page parameters
Defining parameters for results pages
Creating a Google Custom Search for your website
Adding a Google Map API to your site
Although menus and hyperlinks are great tools for helping your mobile users find and navigate your websites, at some point sites get much too big and contain far too much data to rely on simple navigation and interactivity mechanisms. Besides, a simple one- or few-word menu entry doesn't always adequately describe the contents of a page. A page describing, say, a laser surgery procedure, for example, could include all kinds of terms that are not implied in a menu entry or a hyperlink text string.
Perhaps more than other computer users, mobile users tend to be in hurry. Providing them ways to find information on your mobile site as quickly as possible will make the site more successful and therefore more popular. Without question, ...
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