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How do I add a Yahoo search box to my site?How do I add a Yahoo search box on my site? I can see you've written about Google, but Yahoo's impossible to decipher! I agree with you about how complex Yahoo's search code is. In fact, I think that deciphering the Yahoo home page source code could easily be the final exam of a graduate level computer science course. It's really unbelievably baffling! Fortunately you can reverse engineer the search by simply looking at the URL that is produced when you do a Yahoo search, strip out the unnecessary variables, and then build a rudimentary HTML form that produces the remaining. Let me show you... I'll do a Yahoo search for Microsoft Zune and here's the URL that's produced: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft+zune&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
Now, within the Web browser's Address box, I'm going to experimentally remove specific name=value pairs to pare it down to the bare minimum. Turns out that the following much simpler URL produces the exact same search result: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft+zune
Nice! You can avoid all the other mumbo-jumbo, and thank goodness. The form that produces that search looks like this: <form method="get" action="http://search.yahoo.com/search">
<input type="text" name="p" /> <input type="submit" value="Search Yahoo!" /> </form> That's all there is to it. Here's a Yahoo search box that has exactly that code underneath it: One more tweak, though, just because that search box looks just a wee bit boring! You can drop in some minimal CSS and put a nice little box around the search form: <form method="get" action="http://search.yahoo.com/search"
style="border:3px double black;padding:5px;"> <input type="text" name="p" /> <input type="submit" value="Search Yahoo!" /> </form> Which now looks like this: Hopefully that'll help you out!
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Written by Dave Taylor)
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Using the above code worked fine but is it possible to have the search results open in a new page or tab(IE7)instead of navigating away from my website Dave, just add "target=_blank" within the FORM tag in the code above and you should have the behavior you seek. Posted by: Dave Taylor at February 11, 2008 3:16 PMHi, I am adapting the code to work with an affiliate programme. Problem is that I need to add other parameters to the URL. Using your yahoo example it would be like I need the end URL to be: http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=yfp-t-501&p=microsoft+zune I have tried making the action URL http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=yfp-t-501& But it strips off everything after the ? before adding the search term. Posted by: Liz at February 20, 2008 7:42 AMHi.... I have developing a website using PHP. I want to integrate yahoo search into my website. I trying this code. The answer is display in new page. I want to display result in my page only. Is it possible? Raja Posted by: Raja at December 8, 2009 8:03 AMRaja, no that's not possible, at least not easily. The easiest possibility would be to use an iframe for the search and search results, but you can't have a small search window and a large search results window. More complicated would be for you to write some software that would submit the search, get the results, and then embed the results in a page of your own. Complicated. Posted by: Dave Taylor at December 8, 2009 8:29 AMpls sir add my site yahoo search engine Posted by: alis at February 19, 2011 12:10 AMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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