Dave,

Many, many thanks for this very clean search script. It works like a charm and I appreciate your efforts! Well done, great work!

i luv u.....u solve my search problem for about 6 months now i have no problem for search in ma blog....bye and god bless u ...angel

Thanks this code works really well on my site. You've helped me solve a problem.

Going wayyyy back here, Bradley, the code you list (which I just tweaked so it'd show up, btw) has a huge problem: the "action" attribute to the FORM tag needs to be the URL of the script that is going to get the query and process it. By having it as

action="#"

what you're telling your Web browser is that the current page (e.g., your own page) is going to process the search query, which is, of course, incorrect. Go back to my original code and you'll see that I have a URL that's the Google search back end. Try that!

very good script. send me more scripts like this . good work kep it up..........

Dave

Thank you for your wonderful html code for adding a google search box. I have added this to the Website which I administer.

I have only just started and understand very little HTML code.

The search box is wonderful, but does not clear the search automatically. What other code should I use to clear the box for another search.

hi,,
nice piece of code.. but i find that it works only when i refresh the page once.. else its not working. pls help

I have only just started and understand very little HTML code.

Hi Dave - first off, thanks!!

One question...how could I set this so that part of the search phrase was predetermined, with the users entry filling in part of it?

i.e. - The user types in "rules", and the search is done for ["table tennis" "australia" "rules"]?

thnx for the code i wanna ask if i can make the results appear in my websites not in google is this possible or not

thank to giving me right direction.

tnx very much dude,it helps to our computer project.

Thanks for the info I have always wondered how people did this - will be trying this out later tonight.

Roger

This is great - always wondered how to do it but what if I want to move the search box.

Oh - don't worry i have seen some other comments about this - will try it out and see what happens

Geoff.
UK

Just what I was looking for.

Hello! Thanks much for the info. I"m trying at the moment to put in a site search BUT I don't want to include the check box or the radio button. In other words I would like the default search to be my website without having to make the selection for my site or google at large. Is this easy to do. THANKS MUCH!!!

GREAT code! I WAS TRY TO FOUND 3 DAYS, a code like this!!!!!!! thank yu SO MUCH

Great code.
But it does not work when I change the name="q" into something else. That is weird.
But I hgave a question :
What change in the code do I need when I would like the 'Google Search' submit button into a nice Google gif or jpg.
Would you be so kind to shower your expertise over me and help me out on this ?
Would be great. Thanks for the script anyway !

To replce the submit button by an image, just do :

input type="image" src="picture.gif" name="optional"

instead of

input type="submit" value="Google Search" /

Hi everyone,
how can I add the query suggestion feature to the Google search box?

thanks!

sir,here form method="get"..is it possible in "post"
method..pls reply must....

Thanks, Dave
Your tutorial very easy-to-use for a newbie like myself, so thumbs up!

Thanks, Dave
nice article...

Hi.Dave i am visiting ur site.its very useful me for google code.and i also use it.its really working good.so i wil be thank for you.I wil be visit next time.

I need to modify my search bar only to view pdf files. please can you say how can I do that?

Dave,

Great search box! I recently signed up through Google, but am having great trouble understanding it so far. Yours is so nice and simple.

please whow clearly that how to submit url to google id your site is very useful for me i am using your site since last three years and i found all the time it very useful please improve it
i will be very thankful for you for this kindness
please hurry up
Thanks in advanced.
ok by.

Does this work with a subsite? Like I am currently using a school lab website so for example it might be:

http://lab.school.edu/classroom5/1a/johnsmith/

Being that this is the URL and its not a simple www.name.com will google search this site?

hey dave i've added this google code to my website but i dont know how to format it, like move it around my webpage, its currently stuck in one place and i cant move it. do i need to create a div class or what?

Hi Dave Taylor,
I'm relatively new to website programming and I wanted to put a Google Search box on one of my sites. I did a quick search and your site came up with all the information and options under the sun in the comments. Good yo see you take an interest in others.
Best Wishes
Reg

Greetings!

Your advice is so often spot on...
I have designed a website www.thecozyoaks.com using Microsoft Publisher 2007. There is an option to add a response page which I have done. The site is hosted by Godaddy. I can't figure out how to get the info on the response page back to me nor can I figure out how to activate the "email me" link @ mabrybenson@thecozyoaks.com. BTW godaddy does not know how to do it either...

very good

Awesome!!! The code worked flawlessly.

Dear Dave,
Thanks for your most lucid advice.
Can you tell me how to get the local Google search to pick up on the text (.txt) files on the site. The OCR text is up on the server but it is invisible at present.

Hi Dave,
I need to customise my search engine so that i should fetch and display only 15 links from google.
Are there any methods to implement it..?

Regards,
Prakash

Hi Dave can you please tell me if the above coding etc for a google search box will work on a flash template?
I want site viewers to be able to type in a www. address from a list on my site that will then appear in a new window.
Many thanks Annie

Hey Dave, is it possible to make the search box give the suggestions google gives in realtime?

nice...
very usefull for me...

I am looking some tech. help to install in my web side search box and propuce same search results using google or any another search eng. Any one from this board wanna joint this project?
If yes please e-mail me. Thank you. Vitali.

Hi Dave. Great info thanks very much. I really benefited and now a regular of your site. Bless you.

That is what I need for my site. Thank you!

thank you so much.......

This is very helpful..thanks to you Dave. I saw what i wanted.

thanks for usefull info

Can you change the text colour to white? My website has a black background. Thanks

Tell me how can I display the google search results on my website's page.

HI DAVE.. please tell me how to add search engine to my webpage(website)? I don't need google search page to my website.. Search should be only with in my website.. So Please give me the basic ideas about adding search engine to my website?

Thanks in Advance

Hi dave, I am having problems with adding "Google text input assistant" to my search..

Please help, thnx

Uh oh, not sure what you're talking about, Marin. Are you talking about the auto-complete feature that Google now has on its search box? I think there's a fair amount of JavaScript behind making that work, and it's definitely not code that's included in this simple snippet. If that's what you're talking about, drop me a note and I'll see if I can figure out what's involved. ;-)

Hi dave, I am having problems with adding "Google text input assistant" to my search..

it is virtual keyeboard which you can open by pressing image inside input tag..

Please help, thnx

Hey Dave,
I am incorporating google search on my website. The method that you have suggested directs me google itself for the results. But I want to display results given by Google on my website itself. So can you help with that?

Hi i'm trying to add a code or tag? to my website for an seo trial. but i have no clue how to do so. thanks in advance..

Thanks for this,
I've got everything ready:
- Embedded it within my own site = Yes
- Search pages within my own site = Yes
- Display the results below the Search Box* = No

*Display search results in the same page; no pop-up to the Google Page

Please help, am nearly done :D

Sorry for Double posting,

Quote from: "Sumit"
Hey Dave,
I am incorporating google search on my website. The method that you have suggested directs me google itself for the results. But I want to display results given by Google on my website itself. So can you help with that?

Thats what i mean

can i create a site just with google search?
and my website logo on top?

Thank you Dave for your posts, they help me a lot.
success !!!

Hi Dave,
Thanks for being such a rich resource for those of us who are not very experienced. My goal is to see all search terms/words that visitors type into the search box, so I can improve my page copy. I have successfully set up the Free Standard Edition of site search, and use an iFrame. I have been to succesful having results shown on a page that I created, when I type in various test phrases and single terms in the search box. So I am halfway to my goal. The problem that I am encountering is that in GA I do not get any results shown in my reports when I go to Site Search (they all show 0). I have edited my profile to make sure track site search is turned on and have "q" in the variable box (I really do not understand this box). I also just added the new analytics tracking code to the top of my pages, as Google recommends, before "". Any help that you could offer to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
njb

How do I embed a pandora media player into my website

Hi Dave i have a little problem concerning code that i can use to my website search box, so that if the visitor type the word on the search box he or she can able to get a reply

Thank you
Jada...

Dave,

I have an embarrasing question.

I have installed your code but it's stuck on the left hand side of the page. How do I align it so that the google search box is in the center of the page? I have spent the last hour trying and nothing is working.

also I created a search results page for my website. How do I go about getting the google search results to appear on my .html page?

Sorry if those two questions have already been answered.

Dave,

I was able to center my google search box. I saw that you provided an answer to someone else.

How do you make the text box longer in length?

Dave, You have got to be one of the most patient guy I have ever come across. Thank you.

Hi Dave,

How can I add multiple websites and not just one. I want to tell the search engine to search a specific websites which I listed for my own used. How can I made the code like;-

[[ input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"
value="askdavetaylor.com+yahoo.com+wiki.com+ebay.com+and so on" checked /]]

Thanks. It was so much easier then I thought.

This list of comments has been alive for 7 years. It could be the longest comments list ever in the history of the web. ;-)

oops. I meant 6 years. i need sleep. ;-)

Hi Dave,

How can I add multiple websites and not just one. I want to tell the search engine to search a specific websites which I listed for my own used. How can I implement this in php?

Your code worked beautifully! I had an old Google search box on the site and just discovered today that it was no longer functioning. Your code worked well and it seems to be able to search beautifully.

Hi Dave,
Thanks for the code, it worked like a charm. I've been wanting to do this for some time and your code made it easy. My question is this:
Once I get the search results, and I click on one of them, Google always takes me to the top of the page rather than to the exact location of the searched item. Is there any way to get Google to take me directly to the searched item on the page? My pages can be long and the searched item may be buried in tons of text. As a note, Google does indeed display graphically the found item if I hit the magnifying glass icon on any of the results, but it is too hard to read and I am unable to navigate to the text, but only to the top of the page.
Thanks for your time in following this blog for 6 years!

I have to integrate my site with google custom search.during this search only return pdf of the records from my site. Tell me about the solution?

Does you website have to be on Google for it to find it?

Dave,

When I put in the code for the Google Search in my website which is currently under development, where on the site page would the Search Field appear? Is there some way I can control the location of the search field on the page? Thank you!!

Thanks so much for this tutorial and code, Dave!

I didn't want to give readers the option of broadening their search to entire Web. It took me a while, but I figured out that instead of the line about the checkbox, I needed to use this instead:

< input type="hidden" name="sitesearch"
value="askdavetaylor.com" />

I saw other questions about this in this thread, so I thought I'd post the code for anyone else who wants to do that.

Dave, I managed to get code on my site. It looks real nice, my name is checked but I can't seem to get any searches on my site, just google and the web if I uncheck my name.
Where you write about manipulating the variables, was I suppose to do a step re: that before I pasted in code. If so, I'm lost and not sure how to do that part?
The other problem, might be, that my blog is private. Perhaps that won't enable me and visitors to search my own blog? Hope this does not sound too ludicrous to you as that's what it's starting to sound like to me. Thank you in advance if you can help me.

Please ignore my post. I got the code to work.

Thank you very much

Dave, I thought it was working. I won't comment again until you have had time to get back to me.

It will only search the last post of whatever I'm trying to search for. If I try to hit on older posts,it states the same reason as up on top next to the embedded search from blogger that my permission settings make it this way.

Thanks

How can I change the color of the "only search blbla.com" text???

Nevermind! Got it! Thanx for this!

Hi dave am really happy i added the search google tool bar on ma site but next i would like the result searched content to be returned in ma web page thanks

NM.... I got it. I had a screwed up nesting of and tags. somewhere I had an extra tag without the closing tag.

Thanks for the code. Works Great

my web site is a large set of pages at the UW at domain/user/AAWEB where domain/user is a place holder for where my files are stored. I'd like to add a search for one file there. I tried replacing askdavetaylor.com with domain/user/AAWEB and the name of the file I wished to search domain/user/AAWEB/IDXD.htm. If I type domain/user/AAWEB I do get a directory so it looks like google could know what files reside there. So far it looks like the search is constrained to my site but doesn't find anything. Is it possible to have google search a specific file?

Before you try to use the Google search on your own site, it seems to me a good idea to go to Google.com and search for your domain with the notation

site:yourdomain.com

Then look at how many matches there are. For example, I might use "site:askdavetaylor.com" and see how much Google has matched. If it's 11 pages of the thousands I have online, well, then having that search on my site won't be useful.

How do you get Google to see more of your site? One big thing is to ensure that you have a proper sitemap. Google has some good info about it:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184

Hope that helps people out!

HI, I would like to add search to my site that search only for my site return with only my site, ex: my page, my files, link, data and never get out of my site. ?

i will be appreciate for your help.

Very nice and clean code, however to validate as XHTML you'll have to change a bit the final line:

value="askdavetaylor.com" checked="checked" /> only search Ask Dave Taylor

Nice for that support!Thx.But I still have a problem about how to customize search results to be displayed in my web.I'm using target but not working.

When I paste the code into my site, the search box appears but if I enter a search and click, nothing happens- a new page won't open and the search goes nowhere. Help!

Thanks.

To expand after further reading your previous answers:
When I paste the code into my site, the search box appears but if I enter a search and click, nothing happens- a new page won't open and the search goes nowhere.
The site is indexed and gets tons of results when I do the site:auroracollege.com (or nt.ca- both work) search.
I tried on different pages and it does the same thing.
The site apparently used to have a google search button but it got deleted.

Thanks.

Liz, can you share a URL of a page where you have added the code so I can have a quick peek? Thanks!

Thanks, Dave.

It's www.auroracollege.nt.ca

or www.auroracollege.com (both go to the site)

i want to implement search option and want the result on the same website page. who it is possible becasue when i have implement it is showing result on google page. please help. thanks

Thanks, Dave. Works nicely.

If I were to add Google search to my website, does it search just the published content or can I get it to search any databases attached to the website as well?

Hey Dave,
First off, I don't have any knowledge of HTML, PHP, XML, etc. I want to put up a custom google search engine on my site that shows the results on my website itself. The trick is, I want to add a filetype:pdf, or ppt, or doc, at the end of the search query(by default), and use them on different pages to create a custom google file search right on my site. You get the hang of it right? I'm using Webs.com so I can add the HTML as a widget on the pages. Please help me with the code. Hoping for a reply soon.
TC

Hey, while you're having that coffee I just bought you, I have a question (grin)....On your code to add a search engine box, I want the box to ONLY search my site., i.e, I don't want, need the radio button. I tried and tried but couldn't figure how to eliminate it.
Thanks for your site...from one do-gooder to another.

Is there a way to return the first 5 results from google without leaving your page. If so, can you post the code :) Thanks.

Worked really well for us. Thanks for taking the time to help out. Sally

This is tremendously useful and you are a tremendously useful person for posting it. Thank you so much. :D

thanks dave..

big heap thanks dave. and again!

Dave
i have a new website www.islamchest.com. i have a 6 month old domain being used in it but i rejected once by google adsense say before 3 months. i have more than 100 unique visitors daily and will increase to thousands in coming months. Check the site n tell me how can i seo it furter and will google adsense accept me now.