I've seen your blog entries about how to create a search box for Google on my site, and how to create a search box for Google Images on my site, but what I'd love is a single, consolidated search box for both. Is that possible?...

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What can I do to improve the placement of my photographs and graphics in Google Image Search?...

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What's the easiest way to do currency conversions online? I've heard that you can do it with Google itself, but I've never had any luck....

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Dave, any tips on how to get the best possible search results from Google? I spend a lot of time using Google and seem to have a hard time finding just what I want......

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I keep thinking that Google would hide this, but is there any way to figure out the last time that the Google search engine spider (Googlebot) visited a specific Web page? That'd be particularly useful for competitive research......

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You seem to be the wizard of unwrapping searches on sites and showing how to add them on our own Web sites, which is awesome. I saw - and really liked - your article on how to add a Google search box to my site but instead of searching Google, I want to search Google Images. Doable?...

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I've seen some very nice Google-sponsored search systems on sites like StickerGiant and am wondering how hard that is to implement? I know you've written about how to add a Google search box on your site (see How to add a Google search box to your site), but I'm talking about how to have the search results on my site itself....

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Hi Dave. Maybe I've missed this somewhere, but how do I get the search to only look at one directory in my domain? I'm looking for it to only search files in my help file, but not to look in the rest of the site. I'm unsuccessful. I looked at that bot thing, and i didn't see an answer [cf how to add a Google search box to your site] So, for example, it currently...

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I have read lots of articles about how to constrain search results on Google by domain, by site, and even how to group words and include "negative" keywords to ensure that I don't get spurious matches. What I haven't figured out is whether there's any way to constrain my searches by date. For example, to just find material that's been updated or indexed in the last week. Doable?...

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I think that Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is great fun and want to have that feature on my site, but before I start digging into any sort of coding, can you tell me, how does it work?...

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I'm wondering if there is a way to save the google safesearch preferences for users in a mac os x server environment. We have kids that we would love to have search using only the "strict" filtering. Is there a way to set that preference in os x server? Thank you very much!...

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I see you've posted articles explaining how to put a Google Search Box and Search Results on a website. (see add Google search to your site). But is it possible to be able to store the search phrases typed into the Google search boxes? This way I can analyze the data to know what people are searching for, then create more content on that subject....

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I have been using Google's AdSense for Search program for a while now and having some okay results with it. What I'm wondering is whether it's possible to have the search results appear on a page on my site, rather than losing the traffic to the Google system?...

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