How can I add a Google search box to my Web site?

I tried this and when I try to enter a search term it sends me to the google page. Any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong or not doing.
Thanks

If it's working properly, the search box should send you to the Google site, but with the word or words you typed in prefilled in as the search terms. Is this not what you're seeing? If so, what are you seeing? Also, what happens when you type in a term on the search box at the end of my article? Does that work for you?

Is there a way to have the results pop-up in a new window?

John, you'll laugh when you find out how easy that is! The line

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">

just needs to have target="new" added and it'll redirect the result of that form to a new window called "new". If you always want to guarantee that a new window is launched rather than possibly reusing the 'new' window, use "_blank" as the target instead:

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search" target="_blank">

Hope that helps!

I looked at my coding several times last night and missed a typo. Things are working just fine now. Thanks for your help.

OK...I must be missing something here. How does this code search MY site? For example, if I have the word "pumpkin" on a page in my site will this search return a URL to that page?

Thanks for your note, David. Checking on "search my site" in the form causes the search to automatically include "site:yourdomain" so that it only searches pages in the Google database that have your domain as the base of the URL. In essence, it's a search engine for your site alone. Matches then go back to your site. Hope that clears things up!

Dave, now I understand what it is supposed to do. I thought it was going to search in MY domain...within my site...for the text entered...my bad. Thanks for setting me straight. David.

I would like a search box to find things within my site only. my site is not ready yet to submit to any of the search engines as i dont want to get black listed for broken links etc. How can I make and test a search box for my site without submitting to Google etc.

Cheers

You can't use the Google search tool to find content on your site if you don't want Google to see it, Adam, so you'll need to install a search engine of your own on your server. If that's a possibility, then I'd talk with your Web hosting provider because they might already have something installed. Good luck!

Thank you for this tip! How kind of you to do all this work so I can have it so easy. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

I'm making my site and have kept the google search in it. It's too easy to put google search and in few seconds it worked fine.

Thanks alot for the code that is mentioned here.

I've added my site to google and would like to know more about how I can get my site on the index page of google.

Regards,
Piyush

Dave,I have added Google to my webpage using the "Google free" code. Can you please tell me how can i by default place the cursor in google search box?

It is my understanding that you can get paid by Google when people use your site's Google search box. How does that work? Do the ads have to be able to pop up on your site or can the inquiries be sent to the Google website, leaving our website free of clutter? How do you set it up so that we get paid when people use our search box? I have tried to find the answer in Google's help pages but I just can't seem to get a solid answer anywhere.

We are also trying to customize the appearance of our Google search box so that it fits within a certain space designated on our website. Any recommendations?

I am at my wits end and desperate for help!

I'm trying to add the Google search to my blog, but it doesn't seem to work. Perhaps I'm inserting it in the wrong location. Perhaps I need different code because it's a blog, not a web site. Any help would be appreciated. The blog's purpose is to facilitate communication among former high school classmates, many of whom do not seem to be very Internet savvy. I'm hoping a "search this site" function will help them to locate names more easily

how can i make a search "form" such as one that a car dealer would use to have people search his site for a car. one that would use multiple boxes such as "make", "model", "color" etc. and use all the boxes to come up with results

Hi Dave, I entered the code like said and changed the domain, but the search won't work on my site. (as in, won't return a search relevant to my site), but will do the google search just fine (when i uncheck the box). any thoughts on how i can fix this? thanks!

Two issues, Jillian. First off, you need to not send the "http://" part in your 'sitesearch' field, but more importantly, a search of Google shows that it doesn't have a single page of your site in its search engine, so there's no way for it to ever succeed. Try searching for 'site:www.askdavetaylor.com', for example, then search for 'site;vespa-rosso.blogspot.com' and you'll see what I mean. Sorry!

Dave, I'll fix the first part (the http), but I also noticed the google search thing. How can I change this? I listed my site with google about a week or two ago. Thanks!
Jillian

You might just need to have some patience, Jillian. Google has a "sandbox" where brand new sites and domains are parked for a few weeks up to a few months before they're added to the full Google database. That's so spam sites don't just pop up and corrupt / pollute the Google database, but it's darn frustrating for us legitimate content providers. Sorry!

Hi Dave, I've read all your comments to other posts and I'm using CityMax for my host and they don't offer a search box for my site. I'd love to have one that just searches my site and no advertisements.. google seems to have a problem with my site since it's through a host and not mine... :(Can you help me with how to add a search box to my site that only returns items from my site with pictures? Like any one of the pages listed below would be fantastic.
www.silady.net (www.silady.net/page/page/2265521.htm(home page)), (www.silady.net/bracelets.html),
(www.silady.net/earrings.html), (www.silady.net/necklaces.html),
(www.silady.net/pendants.html), (www.silady.net/rings.html), (www.silady.net/sets.html), (www.silady.net/page/page/2319361.htm)

Thanks and praying really hard for help :) Deborah

Hi Dave,

I ve got the google search on one of my sites and it works great for searhced throughout that site.
However I would like to have the search box search sites "a" "b" & "c" all at the same. So far i can only get it to either serach teh whole web or just the one site. Ive tried checking all teh radio buttons, but this just makes its search teh last one.

any ideas?

i have a set of pages to be listed and another set which should not be listed.. how do i do this?

Balaji, you'll want to learn more about the robots.txt file, and specifically the equivalent meta tag you can add to specific pages that tell search engines not to include those pages in indices. See: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/about_robots.html

Hi Dave, I was reading your article about the Google Search Box. I have a website running in PHP-Nuke. The code does not seem to work. I tried adding it to a block, and all that appears is just the *.gif from Google. Can you help?

Ok I see that you have ads by google on the top..well I signed up for google ad sense..and when I copied and pasted the html code to a site..the ad on there was for another site. Isn't it supposed to show my site ad? Could you help me out on how to advertize my site?

Youx, I don't really understand what your expectations of AdSense are: you don't want ads for your own site on AdSense, because then you'd be paying for click-thrus that are from people already at your site. Make sense?

I got a search box coding from your site. Thanks a lot for it.
I am doing a search engine website. When i do this site i may get lots of problems, i think i can get solutions from your site.

Thanks a lot.

I was wondering if there is any way to add a 'Local' search box to my web site. I would like to have a link to search local restaurants, stores, etc... Is there any weay to do this?

Thanks!

I was wondering if you can stop the google search from looking in certail folders/directories?
Also can you customize the look of the search page?

Thanks for all the help?

Thank you for all you do for us.
Is there a way to stop the google search from searching certain directories on your website?

Yes, check out the robots.txt information on the Google site:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html

I think that'll show you how to exclude certain directories.

can i include in my site to search web sites from my site or i need to pay any thing? it is opening search result in the same web brouser cant we open in the new web brouser?

Sajja, you're welcome to use this code for free - thanks for asking - and if you want to have it open in a new browser, add

target="_blank"

to the "form" tag.

I put a google free site search on my webpage and there is another one below that with search the web and my website. I look in the HTML code but there isn't any for the bottom one. I only copied the HTML for the top one. How do I remove the bottom one?

Peder, assuming you haven't copied and pasted it twice, I can't imagine how the code I present here could produce two search boxes for you. Can you email me your page URL (use the "Ask" button near the top) and I'll have a quick peek?

How do I add in the option of searching either the Web or only pages from the UK

John, just tweak the code I show to have the option of adding site:uk as a way to constrain your search results.

thanks for the quick reply. Not knowing how to do HMTL code you couldnt give me a clue how to restrict the search.

John

Dear Dave,
I was wondering, could a form like this work when trying to search images and web on google as two seperate actions in one form.

is there any way to have the results of the search display in my own page rather than googles? if not, do you know of a search engine that can be bought that has functions to prioritize search results? let me add my thanks to the bunch. thanks.

george

A couple of questions:
I know the first one has been asked a couple of times here but I haven't seen an answer yet. Can you get the google results to come up on your own page, instead of transferring to the google website?

And is there any way of tracking what people are searching for, when they use the search box on your site? Any ideas of how you can do this?

George, Trudes, no, you can't do that without some sneaky hacking behind the scenes that Google won't look upon happily. In terms of what they're searching for, yes, you could theoretically create a search box that feeds the search query to an intermediate script that logs their search pattern then bounces them directly to Google. Hmmm.... :-)

Ok, now you've lost me. How would I set up an intermediate script? I'm still learning!

how can i add vote button to my website.

When you use google as a search engine on your own site, I think you still need to display the Google graphic. (See Section 2.3 Attribution at http://www.google.com/services/terms_free.html ). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I've been looking for some proper valid code for these pesky search boxes all day. At last I've found it! Thanks Dave! And (if it isn't too late) Happy New Year :)

Hello, recently I decided to add a search feature to a site I'm constructing, http://skee.zaiph.net
However, the Google search bar doesn't work! If I attempt to search for any keywords whatsoever while on the "Search this site" option, no results appear.
The site uses an iFrame, is there a chance that this may have effected the searches?
Also, when I was on the panel that enables me to control the search bar (I am using the free one that enables the site's banner to display on the results pages), it states only 1 page is registered for my site.
How can I add more of my site's pages to the Google database? Why isn't the search bar working?

Thanks in advance! Also, if this helps any, the link to the Google searchbar is at
http://skee.zaiph.net/other/googlesearchtest.html

~James

James, the reason that Google isn't finding your search results is because your site is just too new. Your best bet for getting into the Google database is simply to have sites point to you and make sure that each of your pages points to all your other pages. Then just have some patience!

Hello Dave,
If you visit my page, you can see that I need major help with my page. First, I want my side bar to align right next to the posts. Second, the google search does not work with my site. I know that there are only 2 comments, but when I type "Dr. Hyde in the Wordpress search, it comes up with the comment that has Dr. Hyde in it, whereas the google search for my site does not..... PLEASE HELP.. i am not familiar with CSS, but if you canhelp, it would be great
Thank You
Deepa

Dear Dave,
I posted my question a couple of days ago and I don't know when to expect a response from you. I don't know how these forums work either. I just wanted to let you know that I am in deperate need of help. Please, anyone, can you help me?

Excellent information!

I'm using the Google search (not for my site, just to do full web searches from my site). How can I get the cursor to default to the Google input box?

I'm glad to send you a link to my site, but didn't want to post it as it's under construction, and currently lacking in some areas of security.

Thanks for any help or suggestions!

-Steve

I would like to have the Google search box search several different sites (call them "a" "b" & "c") all at the same. So far I can only get it to either search the whole web or just one site. I can do this with Yahoo but can't figure out how to do it with the Google code.

any ideas?

Steve, that's a basic JavaScript trick: make sure that the input field has an explicit name (which it should anyway, let's call it "fieldname" for this explanation) and that the form itself has a name (add a name="formname" attribute within the FORM tag itself), then in the BODY tag add the following attribute:

onLoad="'document.formname.fieldname.focus();"

that should be all you need to do!

Hi, How would be the same search box using froogle?
Thanks in advance

javier, please see:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_add_a_froogle_search_box_to_my_site.html

Your code and this page are not XHTML valid. I believe the checked value is the problem.

First, many thanks for the great information! Can you please explain how to use the site: variable to search several different sites at the same time? I would like to have a search box on my intranet that searches a handful of sites, but I don’t want to offer each site as a choice, I just want a box and the Google search button, and have it search all of the sites.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Dave, how can you change the attributes of the Submit button (font, color, color of the button, etc.)? When I get the answer, I promise to buy you that chai.

Mae, good incentive! Here's what I wrote up:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_change_the_appearance_of_a_submit_button.html

:-)

Thanks Dave! You're the best. It's hard for my readers to search my old blog postings but you've just made it easy and nice to look at!

I would like to have the google search and google adsence to my website can you guide me how to do it.

If i copy-paste the the code you mention above where will the box be placed on my webpage , will it not change all the existing setting.

To get started with AdSense, Mukul, please check out the following quite popular reference page:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_get_started_making_money_with_google_adsense.html

Hope that helps you out!

Using the "google search" seems reltively easy as you explained! It seems the only search I get is from my index (home) page? What is the proper code to search all pages? I'm the novice here when it comes to html and my site is as "green" as can get for expertise! Thanks so much and I do enjoy all the reading! You're very knowledgable and appreciated!

Jeff

please give some idea to develop a searc engine.
Or give me some method how to implement google search so that my company logo will come after search,means i dont want to allow google logo

Thanks a lot for the code, but I couldn't get it to search an internal database on an internal network (my code for database search was as value="K:\InternalDatabase\" (drive and file names changed for security reasons, yet the format is exactly how I have it)). Do you know if I can make the database searchable with Google Search?

I would love a search box for my site however, I don't like the way it is boxed with a black line.
Is it possible not to have it outlined?

Miriam, that's easy. Just take out the

border:1px solid black;

from the code snippet (it's in the "div" tag) making sure not to remove the quote just before it, and you'll have the box and search function without the black box line!

I was wondering, I want to put this google bar in my banner on my page, but I am building it in Fireworks and there is no code view, can I do this? I also will be using either Dreamweaver or FrontPage, could I put it in my banner using one of these programs? I would use the banner as a background image except I have my buttons on it so I am going to have to import it as multiple Fireworks files. Help would be great! Thanks!

I added the Google site search to my site last year. But it does not find new content.

For example, I added the terms "yankee doodle dandy" to a test page back on 9/9/2005. However, upon a "site" search, it does not locate the page with that term.

Can I assume that my site must be re-indexed by Google before any new content will be found?

thanks in advance

I've trie to put google search on my site in the top border (front page) so it will appear on each page, but I cut and pasted it, couldn't find the html for the border. Help......Nice site!!!

hi dude....i ur site is very useful for me....here i come up eiyh one question...

i need to add my website in google search...
i looked some articles related to google search optimization...but iam clear ...so can u help ?

i need the simple steps in designing , implemetation & i also want to know about aother pay search engines...

it will be very help full for me if u do this
thanks
vish

Hi Dave - This should be easy for you, but I'll still buy you a Chai if you can help... I just put an Adsense search box on my front page, but I'd really like the button to default checked on MY site. What do I have to modify in the code? Thank you so much.

...And while I'm asking, I just noticed that on my OS X system, When I used the search box with "web" clicked, it turns up nothing in the search! But it's just fine on my older system. What am I doing wrong...? Thanks again.

Steve, the AdSense search box is a different beast. Let me dig around and see what I can put together.

I'm grateful for websites like this, and I'm very thankful for people like you, dave. Thank you very much. But I'm wondering if, for example, somebody did a search for my website and did not find it, but my other website can be found, how can I add the new website to appear in the search?

Dave, I can't get either of your above sets of search code to work. What could I be doing wrong. Thanks , Jerry

I can't get Google Search box to work on my intranet site. Can it work on an intranet site?

hello dave,actually i am kind of new to adsense and web designing.I have a blog at http://technogeekzz.blogspot.com/ at blogger.com.Now
I want to enter the google searchbar and some other banners on my site related to google software.I have the html codes(thanks to you for the google searchbar )but i dont know where to put this actually.There is an option in the templates section at blogger.com where i can view and edit the whole html code of my site but i dont know exactly where to put these banners and searchbars.Any help would be greatly appreciated.please reply here or if u can plz mail me at kartiksatija@gmail.com it would be really great...thanx in advance...awaitinf for ur reply

I am truly amazed by this site! Why are you doing this? WHEN are you doing this? - Anyway, I very much like the 'additional tweaks' version of the script on top of this page. Can you also do it the other way round? I mean, what is the code to create a decent search box and submit button just to search your own site and a little check box underneath if you want to search all of Google?

Thanks.
Jeroen (pronounced as 'yaroon'), Belgium

You can most definitely tweak things. Have a look at how I integrated the AdSense for Search system into my Intuitive Life blog, actually:

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/

(it's on the right nav bar, about half-way down the page)

Then read this to see how it was done:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_get_google_search_results_on_my_site.html

lol hey dave

killer script

thanks

Jason
ZTEK

I added your google search tags to my webpage, which didn't pass XHTML validation. To be sure, I pasted your tags on an empty page, but it still earned one error as below. Please help!

+++++++++++++
the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from an attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified.

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

"VI delimiter" is a technical term for the equal sign. This error message means that the name of an attribute and the equal sign cannot be omitted when specifying an attribute. A common cause for this error message is the use of "Attribute Minimization" in document types where it is not allowed, in XHTML for instance.

How to fix: For attributes such as compact, checked or selected, do not write e.g <option selected ... but rather <option selected="selected" ...

Easily fixed to be fully XHTML compliant:

value="askdavetaylor.com" checked="checked" />

that's all there is to it.

Hi Dave,
I'm been trying to find the right code to copy google's search bar with all of it's features, like images, videos, maps, etc. So far i've only been able to edit the script where the normal search works, but the images and other things don't work. Do you have a code or know where to get it?

Thanks,

Mike

Hello Dave, Thank you for answering my earlier question. Your answer helped me understand the validation error message!

Hi Dave - I'm using frontpage to design my site and am having some problems with the search box. I copied the code you gave me onto my site and it doesn't seem to return any results. I understand that it won't return anything results from my site yet since I just registered with Google, but shouldn't it return results for searches outside of my site? Right now, when I click the button, nothing happens.

Help - and thanks for all the good advice.

Nice article, i have a simple question, is it legal to edit the google search form ,remove the google image and radio? i would like to do that on my site www.BadrIT.com.

Mohamed, I guess it depends on how you define "legal". There's no *law* saying you can't do that, and I really can't imagine that Google is going to notice or really care if you tweak with the script if you're sending them traffic. However, I do recall that the terms of service for searches indicates you shouldn't be monkeying with the script.

Thanks for your reply, i reviewed the terms of service but the only restriction i could found is that i must put google logo, can you tell me please where is the part that say not to play with the scripts, i am feeling that i may missed some thing!

Thanks.
Muhammad Hassan

First thanks for all the helpful information. I imported the code and when I search "my" site, for a word, for example, Necklaces, it returns results from my shopping cart software, but not from my site proper. When do a Google site search for www.maggies107.com, I get the first page of my site, and the shopping cart data. What do I need to do to get the balance of my website to show up? Would including the sitemap for the Google information cure this?

Thanks for the info. Appreciate the service, as I am in the boonies with no other brains to pick.

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Thanks for the code. Great help!!!

Hi Dave! Wicked awesome plugin. But, I do have a query.

First: It works. No sweat.
Second: Whenever I add the code checked="checked" somehow after I submit the changes, it wipes that particular string out. nothing else, just that. Like it's invalid & trying to get rid of it. Any clue why? I can't get the code to make the box checked.
Alternately, I'd be happy with no check box, so it ONLY searched my site. I couldn't finagle the code to do that though. Any clue?
Thanks!

Dave,
Can I modify my "custom google search box" to just search a few specific sites, not just one?
Roger

Thanks for the code to add google search box in my blog. But i have a problem integrating wikipedia search within the same script.. i tried making another button for wikipedia but with no success with the search results. Since i am not that familiar with HTML, i couldn make it work. Is there any way u can make it work?
Thank you.

Dear Mr.Dave,

When I add your code into my blogger:

only search Ask Dave Taylor

It appear the following warning:

"Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Attribute name "checked" associated with an element type "input" must be followed by the ' = ' character. "

Please help me to solve this problem.

Thanks you so much.

Thi.

My server has a pre-coded search query box that searches just my site and does what I need for the most part. I am satisified with that aspect, yet is there a code I can insert within their code that will HIGHLIGHT the search result? I have an example for test search box on the url:

http://www.puddleofmuddfanpage.com/upchurch.htm

A search of 'Chicago' yields 13 results, but I have a lot of text on the site and I feel the users will get frustrated trying to find their keyword without a highlight tag.

Or another option, is there a code that will make it jump to the first result within the website, then a next button, similar to the search option for a keyword in Microsoft Word Document that will make it jump right to the next result?

FrontPage has an insert search box option, but I have a code conflict with my server and I'd rather just use the servers code and I insert their code manually. My site is new and hasn't been listing on Google yet so the Google search box isn't an option yet.

Thanks for all your assistance to others, I have been reading a lot of your site today.

It was really fruitful and it was up to my needs it also proved to be inspiration for me i tried and found out Google Custom Search Engine

Ultimately very happy....

Thanks Chaitanya Parekh ! With a little work I finally got it to search all of my pages and not just the front page. Also for the ease of use for my visitors, I just added a message above the search box to view in 'cached' for their keywords to be highlighted since I have a lot of text on my pages. I appreciate your suggestion for to Google Custom Search Engine option. Up and running perfectly, thanks again.

How do you make a "Submit" button automatically pop up?

Hi I just wanted to say thanks for the code, I am currently having a problem getting the code to search my whole site though, here is my form,

It seems that it only wishes to search my index.html page and not search through all of my .html pages.

If you could get back to me that would be most appreciated.

Wayne

Wayne, that is the problem I had in the beginning, trying to get it to searc all of my pages. With more reading into the how to section, I found I had to add under the control panel/sites, some wildcard entries to have it hit all of my pages.

Fill in your site name and add each URL:

*.puddleofmuddfanpage.*
http://www.puddleofmuddfanpage.com/*
http://www.puddleofmuddfanpage.com/public_html

I have those 3 listed and it searches all of my pages. So it appears you should have a minimum of those 3 versions. It works with no problems, I added it to my front page in the left column if you want to take a look. Also if you type in a keyword, such as Chicago, if you view it in cached option, it highlights it to make finding the keyword easier. I have a lot of text on my pages, so I added those directions above the search box so users would be able to find what they are looking for easily. Hope this helps!

www.puddleofmuddfanpage.com

Wayne, is it possible that your site simply isn't fully indexed by Google? Try doing a search like site:askdavetaylor.com (with your domain name rather than mine) and see how many pages match. That's an easy way to see what's in the index...

Hi Mr.Dave thanks a lot for the great codes.
It works fine on my site.but i dont understand why it still return the old contents.
But im not deleted yet the old file in my domain.
I just replace with the new contents and interfaces.
How can i solved this problem..thanks in advance

what does script error 95 mean plz help it keeps coming up on mii piczo site i wanna no how to deletye it cause i can not edit anything plz help ..... thankz for the help .... xx dana

re: Kontera and multiple web pages

If a person has a website with many many pages, what is the easiest method or manner to insert Kontera code on to each of those webpages?

Thanks...

Colleen

Colleen, I hope that you have some sort of template or other system built around a content management system (a blog, something like Article Manager, whatever) so that you can apply changes quickly? Failing that, some server-side includes (SSI) that lets you change one file and deliver up the changes to all of your pages? Otherwise, well, you have a tedious task ahead of you..

Hi Dave I would like to add google search to my companies intranet homepage to search the internet, do you know how to do this using xml? Our intranet home page was built using flex2.

Thanks works a treat

Hi Dave,

This code is great, thanks. One question though: Is it possible to have only the text input field and submit button and it still search only our website, not the world wide web? I have no use for the radio buttons or the check box..

Nevermind! I used a hidden input type with our site address as the value and the "sitesearch" as the name and it works fine. :D

Hi,Dave.
We are one of the manpower agency and we would like to install Google search
engine in our website (www.jobonhand.com)to search suitable resume for our
employer view.I found that one of the web site installed the google
search engine on their site,
(www.amrood.com) please help me to avail the
facility.

Note: The google have sent me the key code, even though,i cant search what i want exactly.

I have a major problem i add google search box in my site but it only search for few static page of my site not for whole site .please tell why it is happening

Thanks Dave. I'm using your code on my site and it works great.

Dave,
How do you put a search box on a web page that will search ONLY that page?
Thanks in advance!

dave, there are some of the strange google search box, like there is a backround int he search box, how can we do that ? l mean a backround image in search box and a default text "search in google" or some special features, can u teach us pls ?

Dave, I was just wondering how do I take out the ads from google search? it's working fine but I don't want to have ads displayed on the University developed web site. any suggesions? comments?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,
Atiq Warraich
warraich@ur.msu.edu

Dave,
Very much appreciate the code. I narrowed the box and input field and dropped the border and it looks like it just grew there :-)

Now if I could just find some people who want to buy wooden pens, bowls or keychains ...

Oh well, Adsense won't pay the mortgage on my house yet, but it's almost to the point of paying for the website rent. Progress ... not perfection.

Hi i have the box on my web page but you can not search in in what do i do here?

Hie

I have a search option. In which there is a textfield and Submit Button. Before i press the button, i have two Radio Buttons.
1: Site Search
2: Google Search.

I want to have a check that when 2nd radio button is pressed it should go to google for search. Otherwise it should search within the website.

Can you help me implimetning these two?

Help much appriciated.
Many Thanks
Tauseef

This web site is to search for words within the web site, so I would like to use my own search button like I've seen everywhere on other sites. I have seen the Google Search that gives you two options, to search thru Google or thru the web site itself, but when you chose to search thru the web site Google jumps in and the words you selected are listed with your web site link at an outside Google listing. I would like for people to type a word inside the search box and to jump straight to where that first word is and so forth. Is there an easy way to achieve this?

I'm not technical at all and time is of the essence to get this set up for our members and everyone out there. We conduct paranormal research and educate the community in the paranormal field.

I can even go as far as letting someone design my search button with that purpose and give him/her credit on the web site... This is an extension of a non-profit organization, Paranormal Awareness Society, Corp. and we need help.

Please help me.

Lourdes Metz

Thanks !!! its work !!!!!!

hi every body

Thank goodness I found this answer I had done all sorts of searches and could not find code I wanted. Now the hard part. The code works fine. But is there a way to get the terms that people searched for from this form. That way I can learn better what they are looking for and tweak the content. This would be great! I am running on windows server and did not know if have to have database set up or could just get e-mail?

If you had access to your server, you could write a rudimentary CGI script that simply logged the search string and then bounced it to Google. That's probably a three line shell script in Linux, for example:

#!/bin/sh
logfile="yourdirectory/search.log"
echo $QUERY_STRING >> $logfile
echo "Location: http://www.google.com/search?$QUERY_STRING"
echo ""

exit 0

[caveat: not tested!]

I set up an Access database on my site, but not sure how to get form to also place info into it. I am using dsn

Just dropping by to say thanks for the great and thorough information, as usual. You are obviously a very dedicated and hardworking individual.

Thanks Dave I will try this but I am not linux aware.

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boga heesaha
waxkabaro diintaada
khatarta intarnetka

does this google search tool work on a password protected site? or does that mess things up since the site is not available to all? thanks! d.

Hey Dave,

I just wanted to know if theres was any way that I can take out the padding on the search box? I want to put it in between my columns but I want it to fit snug tight without padding on top or bottom? Is that posssible?

You bet. Simply change that first DIV to remove the "padding" parameter:

<div style="border:1px solid black;width:20em;">

You can also tweak the width to fit your constraints too, including using a pixel count instead (e.g. "width:100px;")

Thanks Dave! It worked great! You are definitely a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you for all your help, Have good one!

Dave: I tried your example and it worked like a charm. The question I have is there a way to convert the results to an iframe without the google search bar showing up?

Thanks!

Hi Dave
I Have the same query as that of nick,
"I added the Google site search to my site last year. But it does not find new content.

For example, I added the terms "yankee doodle dandy" to a test pagee recently, However, upon a "site" search, it does not locate the page with that term.

Can I assume that my site must be re-indexed by Google before any new content will be found? "

if so please suggest some simpler and faster indexing method as my website content changes frequently.
Thanks

Dave,

Great site for those of us starting a website for the first time. My question: When someone does a google search from my site, can I have it first open a new tab if using tab browsing and if they don't have tabbed browsing, then open a new page?

Much Appreciated.

Badshah, you need to wait until the Google spider sees your new pages. One way for that to happen more quickly is to frequently update your site with new content, which teaches it to visit you more often.

Greg, yes, you can do that. Add "target="_blank" within the FORM tag and you'll find that the search results pop up in a new window.

how can i search in my website by using google search

thanks dave for the reply, i am not exactly getting your point that site should be updated daily, does it mean i need to add pages to website or just update/change the contents of the pages/pages already present?, now in either case whatever your reply is like adding pages/changing page content , if i do it on daily basis , does that mean google will eventully index my site daily as my site is should change almost daily and customers should see changes on daily basis too , waiting for ur
reply dave, Eagerlyyyyy

Hi dave, am having problems in locating html of my site, how do i go about it.

Thanks
Ejiro

Hello Dave.. I'd like to have 2 buttons instead of a google button and a checkbox.. how can I do this without the 2nd button having the full URL as it's face (value). In other words.. I would like the button face to say "LI Online" instead of www.longislandonline.com

When I click on a location from Google's search, a different website shows up. It says "jump" and then loads a website i didn't click.

hey. this is so cool. super. thank you very much for this info. cool cool cool! :D

Like Fred recently queried when I click on a location from Google's search, a different website shows up. It says "jump" and then loads a website i didn't click.

Hi Dave this is great thank you very much. Just wondered if you get could the search result to open a new window or tab (same as Greg Smith at May 28, 2007 9:20 AM).

Martin, as I said earlier in this stream of comments, yes, you can do that. Add "target="_blank" within the FORM tag and you'll find that the search results pop up in a new window. :-)

do you know how I can make the google search box search a mysql database?

We, as HornAfrik webmasters, are glad to join to the Google host page, please help us to find the easest way we can our website in an automatically?

So that, how can we deal with this matter?

Wish you the best.

How can I make this search box code, have google search two or three sites, instead of one?

thanks, Kenneth

Hi, Thanks a lot for the feature, but how can I add a Google Image search?

Thanks,

Tom

Thanks Alot Dave .....

May God Bless U

how do i not give the user the option to search google.com, only my site?

How can I create a sign up box on my web site? All I want is to collect the name and email address of visitors who wish to participate.

You Rock Dave!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tanx a lot, I have a cool Search Box now on my site www.sajadghaffoor.blogspot.com tanx 2 you!keep up da good work

Deve Great job,
I was using your control on my site(old site all html pages) and it was working fine today i upload the new site but the search my site is getting me old site results can you help me.

Hi Dave,

Many thanks for this, it's helped alot!

Cheers
Dean

Do I need Google's permision to add google search on my site?

Dear contributor, copies the codes from this site and pasted it straight into a blank document under the body tag...unfortunately it was displaing the code i pasted under the preview.....PLS HELP ME OUT

My web site is www.ppc4you.blogspot.com. I cannot make my site on the google search even though i have submit my site into the google site map

Just wanted to point out that the checked/selected attributes as used here are not actually XHTML compliant, as they are not well-formed. A well-formed attribute is in the form selected="selected".

Absolutely true. It's been a constant frustration that the code offered up by sites like Google and Amazon are often sloppy and need to be cleaned up to be standards compliant. Y'd think they could do better... :-)

Thanks
after all you are master
thanks again!

hello u nailed my qustion right!
pls how do i have the google search results display on my site with out the google logo

Hi Dave,
How to put the Google search (powered by Google)in my website like the www.cnn.com? Thanks

Thanks ALOT....I was looking for that...
I was wondering if I can add buttons to my search box like in google, I.E. image search Images News And Web...Thanks a lot again.

How does one use a graphic as the input button/ submit button? I'd rather not have the Submit button but a gif instead.

Thank you so much for this awesome code!! Unfortunately, I am using this within a company intranet and when I click the search button, it tries to load in our intranet url and causes an error. It will not open in the web. I tried changing the code to open in a new window and it doesn't make a difference, our company url is still at the beginning of the address. Can you help (hope this makes sense)?

Hi Dave,
Found your site and the excellent code snippets are great. Your teaching is very clear too. I thank you sincerely,
-Vinay

I'm making a page and on the top left is the name of the site and I want the search box on the top right. I've tried doing it but it then doesn't work because its outside the red box. How do I also move the red box so that the search box appears top right?

How do I make a comment box like yours?

I am adding a google search and want an new window with a fixed width (say 600px wide)w ith the search results to open over the top of the website. How do I do that? Thank you so much for your help!

When I run the search on my own site, I get results, great. But when I go to those pages, I get the text, but the images don't show. Any idea why? I added your search to a page in my help file, which I created in FrontPage (that has a sucky search feature), and my help file is hosted on a google-registered site.

Thanks this code, i shall add this to my limo hire site shortly

We want to add our pages in googlr pages because please guide to us.

Thank you, Dave Taylor for this website of yours. Humbly, a shy devotee

Thank you Dave Taylor...For days I'm searching for this code. Finally you gave it..!! Thank you.

Dave, I've followed your instructions. However, the search term(s) do not transfer to the Search Page. I do get redirected to the search page, but then have to retype the serach terms. I am using my own search engine and NOT Google. Is the code different?

Tom, undoubtedly your search engine doesn't work the same way that Google does. Most importantly, you need to do a search and then look at the URL your search engine uses to identify the *name of the search term variable*. With Google, it's "q", and that's what this script produces too. If your system uses, say, "searchterm", then just tweak my script to use that variable name instead.

Hi Dave,

thanks for your code. I fairly new in this field and sometimes when i am stuck it takes for ever to figure it out. I have added a search to my site and changed the stle of it with some css, but it just won't work properly. i am looking up things that I know are in teh site, but it doesn't find them. Can you help?

Dave, I have been pouring over this code and I can't seem to figure out why my search box won't fill the google search textbox when I click on the button. Do I have to use a submit button? Right now I am using an image for my button and I think that may be what it has to be. I am using IE7 and when I copy and paste your code it still doesn't work. They only difference in my code is the CSS id's, etc. That won't affect the functionality of the form.

What am I doing wrong?

Hi Dave, i need to display the search result in my website itslef. Can you help me?

Dave,
I was able to add the HTML by way of your instructions regarding adding a web-site specific as well as google search engine. When I do so all I get are no finds on either the website or the net. Any ideas what is going wrong?

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.

So, for example, it currently looks at www.mywebsite.com, but I want it to look at www.mywebsite.com/directoryA

Is there a way to do that? Entering that path simply returns o results.

Thanks

Victoria, I've pulled your question into its own posting:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_google_site_search_look_constrain_subdirectory.html

Hopefully that'll help you out!

Hi Dave. Thanks for this information, I have the google engine on my website ( www.mytravelicious.com) now. Just have a question- how do I put it on the center?

Many thanks

Hi,thanks alot for ur help.
How do i pu the word (GOOGLE) b4 the textfield?
Pliz assist.

Regards,

Dishon.

Thanks Dave, you've saved me!!!

Your site is one of my favorites now :)

I placed your google search on two of my web sites and they are great. Finditmall.com and citizenhealthwatch.com
Thanks for being a sharing person. The world needs more like you.

Dave,

My website's html layouts are fine in IE but in firefox there are some layout issues.

Can you please tell me how i can validate my website's html according to firefox and IE. The perfect solution which u recommend.

dave, you seem to be telling alot of people who ask about opening a search in a new TAB, the "_blank" html code, which is to open up a new window... is there one for opening a new TAB. I can't seem to find a code anywhere, and a client has requested I incorporate this kind of feature in their site search.

As far as I can tell, Cally, there *is* no way to actually have a target= value that opens up a new tab; that's up to the browser software and indeed there are browsers that don't support tabs (for example, cell phone browsers).

Further, the entire target attribute is deprecated in the XHTML standard, so we should theoretically have stopped using it anyways...

Hi dave,

I need some advise regarding adding google adds on to my website.

I have given my URL above, and i got all the codes from Google and pasted on my website, but the adds doesnt seem to appear on my page, I managed to get the google search box on to my site. please help me with this.

Regards

Brilliant!!!!
Thank you so much

Hi Dave, recently my Google image search button has stopped working. If I click the button leaving the query blank I get the Google image search page, but if I search for a picture it returns the regular Google results page, not the image results. It worked for months. Do you know what happened?

Hey Dave,
Do you happen to know of a way to add to the query string when the user types in a search?

For example: They type in "pit bull" and it actually searches for "dogs pit bull".

Hi Dave,
Thanks so much for helping the HTML-inexperienced (like me) with these helpful posts!
My site is hosted on freewebs (http://www.freewebs.com/routedog) and when I search site:freewebs.com/routedog on google nothing happens. Is this because my site is new, or is it that freewebs sites never come up?

Can you make the search result pop up in another window, like this HTML code for a link:

target="_blank"

Jack, yes you can do just that by adding that attribute to the FORM tag. So instead of having something like

FORM METHOD="get" ACTION="xxx"

you have

FORM METHOD="get" ACTION="xxx" TARGET="_blank"

you said if l want to use this code l should simply change the occurrences of askdavetaylor.com as appropriate.only search Ask Dave Taylor
do l have to put my url here too? or what do l do .

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

thanks

hello Dave,

I have added your search code in my web page but it wont work fine. My web pages are in sub folder like "abc.com/xyz"

Can u help me

Hello Dave,

First of all great site, so much informatio.

I already use google search through my adesnse account and was wondering if it is possible to add my adsense code or to your code above or somehow tweak my google search box to look like the one you have made?

basicllay so i still get to use my google adesnse serch but have a different look.

Thank you for your time.

Dave, I just wanted to say thanks. I have a site that's heavy with original content, and I've never been very good at archiving. It is absolutely AWESOME to have this tool for my readers. You're the best!!

Hi dave, thanks for your work, i have succesfully entered google search into my web page.But how can i make it an external link, i don't want it to open in the same window with my page.
Can you give me that code if possible.

I have also tried for several times to add my site into google but it's now about 4 months and it's not yet posted what could be the problem and what can i do?
The site is active and it's in use.
Thank you Mr.Dave.

Thanks for the nice tutorial. I searched it for 3 days before comming to this post. You made my day...
Thanks....

how do you have it only show the search bar and no dial?

Dave, I have a new website that I bought that came with and without flash. I using the with out flash site, it much eaiser to use in Front Page. Any way my question is this. On the contact page I have a box for the person name and email that they can type in as well as a message with a submit button. How do I make this work when they click the submit botton. Do I need to add something to the code? I know how to make e-mail links and what not, but I'm not sure what to do on this. Any help is much appreciated.

hallu dave! thnks for ur great tips! anyway, i am trying to create / design my own site using microsoft frontpage application which i plan to publish using free server ( for testing of course ).

Therefore, i hope you could help me to include google ads + google search box into my site which i created using frontage application? thanks ya!

Thanks! best help ive ever had!

Hi. l just finished making one with google before l found yours . can l delete the google one and use your code. it looks cool

Thanks, Dave! This really works!

Dave, I love these pages. Make more pages!!!!

Dave, I am designing a site for a friend who is an artist. She wants visitors to be able to search for images and be taken directly to that image. e.g. say she has a painting of a frog or frogs, if someone enters frog in a search box she wants all the frog paintings to show up. Is this possible? Preferably for free? Or am I asking too much.
Thanks for your help.
Chris.

Hi Dave, I'm a Realtor in Arizona and in the process of creating my 'website' and it is quite a challenge to me. How do I add the google search so it goes to my webpage?
Thanks,
Pat

Hi Dave,

is there any way to have the search function without the check box? so that it automatically searches your site first? The Box and text is taking up a lot of space and I'd like leave them out! :-)

Thanks much!

how can I get this to work for google images dave?
Any php scripts out there if not

Hello Dave,
Was wondering if there is a way to get the google search, or any other search index to work within a password protected directory of a site?
Thanks,

Exactly what I needed, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge. :)

Hi Dave. I must say you are doing a great job on this site. Thank the Heavens for people like you. I'm designing a Web directory and would like to find out if you are allowed to put a Google search box in your site without Google's permission. In the design I have already created the search box using the code I found on this site and I have also inserted the Google logo. Do I have to get Google's permission? Thanks.

thanks you

thanks a lot. its good comment.

Thanks, This is great

Can this be added to invision message boards? Is there any search that can be?
Thank you!

Hi,

Can u please tell me how can i make this form, running inside an asp.net form ?
The main problem is that i want the google search form integrated inside the main asp form, ( which has the attribute "runat="server" ). If i exclude the code above from the main form, everything works fine, but the search form will flow after the first one ( so, teh search will be at teh bottom of teh page). If i include teh search form in teh main form, it wont work anymore :|.
Any solution will be kindly appreciated.

Thx,
tourettehigh

Just say a lot of thanks for this nice tutorial!

Hi Dave,
i have a blogger blog and want to add google search to it.But i can't figure out the code.Neither the code above nor the google free code works;my main concern is that it can search lines or words in side the blog posts.I think it will work, if you help me out with the variables.My blog is at theindianbuzz.blogspot.com

Dave,

I've cut and pasted your code for the Google Search and it works great, however, in the frame of the search box "maxlength 255 value=""/>" is listed. Also, at the bottom it also says "value=divine9online.com checked /> only search divine9online.co" Shouldn't that text be hidden in HTML view? Please advize. Thanks

Mike, I think your problem is that when you cut and pasted, you ended up getting some extra carriage returns in your results. The lines that you're seeing and don't expect to see, make 'em part of the previous line and you should be good!

Thanks for giving such a useful information. I have used your code on my webpage. It is looking really nice.

Thanks

How can i put current new from major web like google news, yahoo news, other etc which changes automatically with new change on the support web. I want to display news as html web links not by RSS.
Nikhil

I have a question about the Google search box. I set it up and it works, but it doesnt seem to seach a new directory that I put in the location. it searches all the other directories under the top level, but not the most recent one I placed there. This has been the case for four weeks now. Any ideas?

thanks

Tom

Hi,

I am developing a site and I want users to enter keywords and look for similar pages on my own site. I mean the search should be restricted to my site only and I should show the listing alike google does.

Does google help us in such requirements?

Thanks in advance.

How can i add a google search in my web (www.illusion.novoya.com)

This must be some kind of joke. What are you doing coming up with 'solutions' using inaccessible tables and deprecated rubbish like target="_new"???? Ever heard of CSS and XHTML Dave? Bring your coding skills up to date, man!

Hi, I am trying to build a family history site, but wish to keep living peoples information in password protected pages for security. Seriff web plus 9 does not do this, but they have suggested using a third party html code do you have any such codes or do you know where i could find them?

jb, of course I've heard of CSS and XHTML. Heck, I wrote a book about 'em. If you go back and read the code I present, it's certainly XHTML compliant. In terms of using "deprecated" elements like 'target', I find that the newer ways of accomplishing these sort of capabilities are so clunky and awkward, that I view it as typical committee-speak goofiness and ignore that it was deprecated. Just because something is agreed upon by a committee doesn't mean it's an improvement!

For example, it may be "wrong" to use something like <b> but if you don't want to learn CSS styles, "span", etc etc., it's sure darn easy for people to learn and remember. What's more important anyway, that it be "right" according to some committee, or that it be usable?

Hi Dave,

This is a great blog... thanks so much!

I am trying to use the Google Custom Search tool (http://www.google.com/coop/cse/).

The site I am doing this for (www.dawnnelson.org) is black, so I would like the results-page text to be white.

However, I need the query text to be black, because the box background is white.

I have looked through your blog post, but have not seen that topic discussed.

Can you please explain the best way to do this?

BTW, I had tried the AJAX version, but had the same problem with text color, so I reverted to the two-page version.

Thanks,
Josh

Hi there-

Thanks so much for help with adding google search tool.

Next...how to add a box or something where it says, Digg this and Stumble this, etc.

Much appreciated!

Can u please tell me how can i make this form, running inside an asp.net form. because if i put this form inside the main form which has a "runat=surver" tag then the search doesn't work but if i put it outside of the main form, it works fine. Please help me to solve this problem.

i've been trying to figure this out for weeks,
and thanks to you, i now have my own personal
site search.

as we say hereabouts,

"Maraming Salamat, Dave!!"

(many thanks, dave!!"

thanks dave :)

Sweet Post!

Google search is also a pretty good way to monetize your site by directing users to search through your site daily and often click on advertised ads through your adsense account-earning you cashola!

Hay, thanks for the script Dave, worked great, but like a few other comments have asked as well, is there any way to search google images by simply clicking on a check box or something before hitting submit?

Thanks again
Troz

Keep up the good work.

I think by offering people the basics of coding then you don't scare them off, and therefore you give them the confidence to move forward and learn more.

There's no doubting that you're an intelligent guy, but you also possess a natural aptitude for teaching.

Hi Dave,
This blog seems to be very helpful and hope my problem would be solved as well.I have pasted the code provided by you for the google search box in my site (http://dngc.tripod.com).
But the problem is that whenever I search anything within my site it doesn't searches all the pages rather it searches the index page only.I have used frames in the site,is that the reason for the problem.If it is then pliz provide me with a code so that it searches all the pages.

You don't need google. The problem with google is that it index your site very randomly and not very often, so if you have a site which is very dynamic (i.e its contents change and new content is changed every now and then) then you need your own search tool as you want your users to get the latest results. The best that I have come across is Smart Spidey. It's the cheapest out there and works better than some of the most expensive search tool. It has a interesting Did you mean function and you can index your site anytime. Check it out at : http://www.smartspidey.com

I HAVE TO ADD A GOOGLE SEARCH BOX ON MY SITE

I know this is a few years old but THANKS. Was trying to solve this problem - had been using an icky widget for the past several weeks and had to look at GET WIDGET beneath it as a tradeoff - but this does the same thing, simply and more elegantly. On behalf of all of us who are BIG on content and SMALL on coding ability, thank you!!!!

Dave,

I've been trying to add a google search box on my website, however, when I copy the code you provide into a page on my website it gives me an error that says Internet Explorer cannot display the page. I am using Dreamweaver and have the page setup in tables. If I copy the code into a blank page it works fine. What am I doing wrong?

I am in the process of revamping our website and was looking for "how to insert search button into website". I was very lucky to have stumbled upon this site! Thank you Dave, I used your code to insert a google search bar :) YOU ARE A LEGEND!!!

I Cannot Get The Code To Search My Site It Does Not Find Things but when i unclick the search my site only it searches for google
heres the code

only search ps3dexter.ca.tp

Any ideas what i did wrong?

Hi...
How can I add a Google (PDF, PPS, DOC, XlS, SWF) search box to my Web site?

I am trying to add special search on my website. I need to search for special file, I am looking for a search box with radio buttons to choose what type of file you want to search.

Thanks

hi

i am currently developing in Visual web developer with a masterpage

when i add the code and click on the search it just directs me back to my page...if i paste the code in the head of the content place holder it still does not work??i am pretty deperate for it to work

I HAVE BLOGSPOT WEB SITE I NEED ADD , GOOGLE SERCHING BAR, ITRY 5-6 TIME STILL I CANT ADD PLS HELP ME

Hi, Dave,
I would like to add code to a web page on my site that contains a single form input field. I would like site visitors to have the cursor go right to the entry for that input field.

I think I read about that a long time ago and I have spent a lot of time today trying to figure out how to describe the HTML coding question. I like your site and I think you have already described this somewhere but could not find it.

You can email me at my email address that I entered if you have the code for that. And...THANKS for all the good help you have given; others have acknowledged the helpful info that you provide.

Signed -- Ralph

I was looking for nice and attractive GOOGLE ADSENSE FOR SEARCH BOX. Is it legal to change the coding of ADSENSE FOR SEARCH??
Thanks

Thanks Taylor. I'm using the code on my website and it works great.

Just wanted to say that your table/CSS suggestion above worked AWESOMELY for me, and thank you so much for the simple tutorial.

want to give the choice between images and web search and have managed to get image search by changing the first line to
(form method="get" action="http://images.google.com/images?"target=blank)

have been trying to make an option to search all of the web but the way that I have tryed just adds it onto the end of the action rather than replacing it any tips??

here is what i have been trying that dosnt work
(input type="text" name="q" size="31"
maxlength="255" value="fairy" /)
(input type="submit" value="Search" /)

(input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="" checked /) google image
(input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="http://www.google.com/search?"/>google
(br /)

(/form)

in the actual code have used pointy brackets but that made it go invisibal here ;)

hello Dave, here is the problem i am having, i have implemented your search box on my web site, but it doesn't work. I think it is a form problem. Could you have a look on my web site and add some suggestions. I will appreciated greatly.
Regards.
Branimir

Is there a way to have a search for just one folder, for part of the site?
Ok, here is what I am doing, I have piggybacked a personal/family history and photographs site onto my main site, where I enter the url for my site, then a / then the folder name where the second site is with a new index page...

This part has gotten unwieldy and would like it searchable...
Is that possible? or is it un-google friendly?

branimear you need to move the FORM eliments inside the DIV tags then it will work

I did that, now it work perfectly, thank you for answer.
I have another question, why does the search engine list sites (database products) which a have deleted, in Google analytics that is shown as bad url, but the id number of the product (and product) doesn't exist in my database.

Will google be okay with me following this advice? Also, will adding a link from my site to google affect my page rank at all?

how do u make the google search for all pages within ur site because i want the google search tool to search pages of mine such as www.freecoursework.co.cc/dida.html, can you plz tell me how i can add more sites for the search results.

how to add the my website togoogle search

Thanks a million! I had a good search box on my website once, but over time the code got messed up and it no longer worked. Also I think google changed their search box thing since then, so I can't make a new one (easily anyhow). This saved me! Thanks again, hope you don't mind that I modded it for my needs.

does your site have to be on google search engine before you can use this search tool?

nice post. I will try...

Hi David,

Great topic.

I have managed to get the code t work in a standard html page fine, however when I have added it to my CMS template...well nothing works :-(

I have no idea why this is, have you had any history with the code snipet being inserted into immediacy CMS???

Thanks,

Simon

Nice! This beats having to set up php!

Hi Dave,
How do i make the search box to search with a different search engine Not the Google search Engine and display the results on the same page and Not in a new window.
In your code you have "
" Can I replace the Action with different search eninges. You think this will work? or how do I make to search within our own search engine and within our own site.

Thanks for everything Dave....

This is pretty awesome, I've been looking for this code for a while for my site http://theinternetbiz.com

Hi Dave,
How to add more than one website in my 'my site search' - i have two family sites, with common home page. Tks !
Sud

It's useful, however, I'd prefer to have a searcher that doesn't have the Google looks at all.

:S

Thanks So much for the info- It helps me tremendously!

Hey Dave,
thanks for all the help re:adding google search box to web site... BUT, what I really want to do is have a button that when clicked will submit a SPECIFIC querry to google from within my web page.
I guess its the equivalent of replacing the querry box input mechanism with a predefined text string... how do I do that? or... maybe just being able to pass parameters to google search... is any of this possible?

This has been a massive help to me - been digging and thinking on this for months. My top tip to people would be to double check the scripting for typos when you amend it to your own website. Even though i copied and pasted, i still forgot to delete some bits when I added my own site details. it WILL and DOES work! If u have any probs, double check the script on your html page.
This worked fine in Frontpage 2000.
Thanx again!

Just was wondering how do you actually activate and use the google search? it seems like it you only to google's home page without submitting the query.

how do i fix it?

Pier, here's what you want:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_create_a_search_google_button_on_my_web_page.html

:-)

So happy that I found your site! Everytime I put Amazon in my search box [on my regular explorer page], it gets me to Amazon, then adds tons of letters to my search and it flips over to Google image search and cannot find what I'm looking for. Even though it just took me off the page that I wanted. This only seems to happen at sites where cookies are needed. I have done EVERYTHING suggested to enable cookies. I am on medium security as well. Why is google image search stuck on to my yahoo search bar? Help? Thank you in advance for understanding and helping.

Hi Dave,

Being a bit slow, I wonder if you can help.

Rather than having to load the Google Toolbar, is there a way I can simply replicate the Google search box on my intranet, ie Search the web with a check box option for the World or just the UK.

Can you advise what code I need?

Many Thanks.

Regards,

John

do you know much about system development

Thanks for your useful google search codes hopefully i will be able to add them to www.ziigames.co.uk www.jllmarketing.co.uk www.pembrokeshire-sports.co.uk soooon!

please add this page if any body write azaan, quran naat on search bar.

Dave,

How do I add a search box & button as you have above that will search my site only, without having to have either the radio button or check box options? I just want to have the search box and button and nothing else..

thanks!!

Hi, is there a way to search two domains? I want two sites searched only.

Thanks

Dear Sir,

5 month before i was join NIIT they assured me that they will expert me in web designing after 3 month they told me your course is complete & they didn't teach me & eat my money Rs 4000/- thousand & give me a certificate, still i am trying to learn web-designing online. i make a webpage in frontpage but i hv a few problem that is my webpage is working well in my computer if i check another computer so the webpage is not working well i mean resolution problem.let me know the some tips about webdesigning any one can help me.

Hallu.. Love you all...

Thanks Dave...Your code worked on the first try.. thanks for sharing...

Hi Dave, ive been trying to get my contacts page to send the information filled in the form to be sent to my email address, but to no avail. i have mae the form in html and it calls a php file that collects the data and posts it. i thought this would work but it aint. please assist me.

Thanks in advance.
Nick

can you add a comment box into freewebs?
I've tried but it doens't work

Thank you Dave, this article has helped me very well. I am searching for this type of help from long ago. I will definitely divert my friends to this article. Thanx again

Great job, thanks for explaining how it works. You can also change language of the search in Google by changing the'action="http://www.google.com/search"

I needed Korean, so I changed it to 'action="http://www.google.co.kr/search"

Thanks

Hi,
Just wondering wether it would be possible to make it search more than one site??

<input type="submit" value="search" />

how do i make this pop up to a new window?

Tamina, just add

target="_blank"

to the FORM element. Not the input element.

i have to add the search engine box in my web page.

Dave,

I successfully added the Google site search box. I have an unpublished storefront of about 7 pages. How do I modify your code so the search will only search specific pages that I identify, ie. my storefront pages only. I know I must have the pages indexed by Google before the search will work. Each page is sequential and are named like so: storefront, storefront2, storefront3, etc. Will I need some wild card code or will I need to repeat each page. To clarify which code I'm speaking of I have pasted it below(it has my domain name inside). Thanks, Lon

Search Site box

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">

<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:20em;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td>
<input type="text" name="q" size="25"
maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" style="font-size:75%">
<input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"
value="outdoor-photography-topic-gallery.com" checked /> only search

Outdoor Photography Topic Gallery<br />
</td></tr></table>
</div>

</form>

add google to my site

Thanks for this, i wasted a lot of time before coming here. very cool.

Nice. I (and I'm pretty sure LOADS more people) really appreciate these simple, concise tutorials.

Cheers mate.

when i tick the box it makes no difference it still searches google

hello dave
i a problem please help me my family are using my computer and they download everything from it so i decide to locke download could you please tell me how i can lock download .thanks

Hi Dave, Is it possible to display the google search results within a window on my website?

Hi Dave, Awsome stuff. I was wondering how you get a comment box at the bottom of the site like this one. How would I go about putting that on my site?

thank u Dave! Its simple and it just works.
The box was a bit big on my Indian defence news site www.8ak.in, so I changed the size value and the em value, so its all looking nice and clean now!

Hi DAve, I added a Google search on my web site, but my site index page is made up with frames, so when the search is used the google search opens up in just that frame, how can I make it open on top please

Gordon, add target="_top" to the FORM tag and it should do what you want. In other words:

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search" target="_top" >

That should do the trick!

hello, i'm new to google search, i did added the search box in my web site, when i key in some keywords there some can pop up result and some cannot, and these items are on the same web page, why this will happen? and also sometimes when i search an item that is let say on page 3 of my catalog, but the goole search result showing that is page 2, why??
thank you

Thanks for your tips..!

Thank U Mr Dave taylor i hv successfully added Google search in my web page
ThanX again

thanks , worked like a treat!

THANX a lot..you made it easy to add google toolbar to my site..

How can you list your website with Google?

Hi Dave

I can't access Google Apps because my domain host suddenly is no more. I am currently trying to find a new host for accommodationalbany.co.nz.

In the meantime, because Google Apps only applies to existing sites, I went to Google Sites and set up what I thought was a web page, fairviewheightsbb@gmail.com. I cant find it on the web. I think there is another step involved to attract search engines. I am not familiar with HTML but does you advice about adding a google search box apply?. Do Google Sites attract search engines? Do I need a host?

I need help for custom search engine html code that have by store, by brand & by category search button special for all my 70 online stores. Please help me!

I got problem with my button. I already put the hyperlink but it seem unfunctional. Please give me a complete html code for button with hyperlink function.

how do i display the google search result in a same page? with the exact header and footer at my page..

Thank you brother

Hi,
I would like to add your code for this Google search but I was wondering if it is possible to not have the search web check option. I want to only allow searches on my website.
Is this possible and how can it be done. Thanks for the code I have learnt a lot form your website.

Can anyone tell me if is possibile to make the search bar search in my password area?

Like the protected pages? I tipe a name on that protected page but nothing:(

So anywone ... Thanks in advanced !

please tell me how to use the search box to search for more than 1 site at 1 time.
pLEASE tell if its possible or not. its really urgent.

Thank you

Dave
i have query form in my website but i dont know how to link that form with my email.

can you guide me?

Dave

It works..........

Thanks a lot!

Thank you, that was very clear and very helpful.

Dear Dave,

Please help me understand what's wrong with my Google Search.

Google offers three alternatives, two of which work properly and the third one (the one that I need) - does not work at all.

1. search results in new window on Google site - works
2. search results in current window on Google site - works
3. search results in current window on page Search of my site - does not return results at all.

I am using iWeb widget to create SearchBox and SearchResults area.

Is it a problem of Apple's iWeb or is it a problem with Google code? Or am I a complete idiot?

Dave,

Thanks for the solutions u've provided thus far.How do I add a search box to my website such that it conducts word search only within the website even when i'm not online.

When I complete put the search box on my web site then the result show on new Google page and new out site my website theme. I want the search result show on my web site in ifram.
So can you give me solution on search result on my web page in ifram.
Thank you.

please help me

want 2 put add on googel.com

Thank you

thanks a lot for your help.

Dude, WHY is question I made here not here??

Probably because it wasn't relevant to the topic at hand, so I either moved it or deleted it. Trying to keep things coherent and logical. :-)

"Probably because it wasn't relevant to the topic at hand, so I either moved it or deleted it. Trying to keep things coherent and logical."
What the hell are you saying?? It's completely about the topic, coherent and logical!

I have a Google search boX in my website, the first one Dave gave in the top of this page. It has two options, search The Web and Ask Dave Taylor with two input radio buttons before each one. You can chose which one you want to search.

Now I would like to know if this is possible and if it is how it's done: make the first option search the web only and the second option search google images only. Without having two different search boXes.

How is that not related to the topic nor logical??

Easy does it. I get a lot of comments and don't always recall why I do or don't moderate specific entries. Your question seems like a reasonable one and since the two use a very similar format, I expect it's doable too.

For example, here's a search URL:

http://www.google.com/search?q=my+search

and the same search on Google images:

http://images.google.com/images?q=my+search

So all you'd need to do is change the "action" field of the form if someone indicated they wanted to search images, not the full Google search. Let me poke around, see if I can come up with the necessary Javascript... :-)

Thanx a lotttttt
It's great
and it do works........

how can i improve my website please help!

dave, i tried your box but no search results came up. i just recently posted my site up. does this mean that the search engine hasn't crawled my site yet?

thanks

David, sounds like Google hasn't indexed your site yet. The easy way to find out is to search for your domain name prefaced by "site:" (I'd use "site:askdavetaylor.com" for example) and see if there are any matches. Then compare the total number of matches (you can find that in the top right) to the number of pages you know comprises your Web site.

I want to add google search bar at my website. I have created my website (www.autoasia.net) using front page. When I paste the code of Google Search Bar wherein I want to put the Google Search Bar, only the codes are shown in design mode. No logos and no search bar is shown there. How can I do that, please advise SIR.

hey there dave!
im currently using the google search code on my website, basicly i got bored and ended up makeing a home page how i wanted it which included google search, is there any way to get the search box to focus when the page loads (focus onload i belive this is called) every attempt ive tried its been able to focus however for some reason it disrupts the search angine and wont connect to google :/

sir,
i want to know how to add in google.i want to launch a webside and using ur this search engine.what is benifit for me? plz tell me soon.

Hey Dave-
Thanks for this script- it's slick.
I have a problem... I just changed from a blogspot.com to my own domain. I put a robot.txt in my root folder to stop my old site from showing up in google searches. I also did a mass url removal (per google crawler access)...
here is my question... since I went from blogspot to my own domain, and I have blocked google from crawling my files by putting the robot.txt in my root folder, am I now unable to have my own google search in my website? Will these blocks affect my own personal site search?

Thanks!!

Vikas, the benefit to using Google as a search engine is that it does all the work for you and you don't have to worry about a site-specific search engine and maintaining it locally...

Amy, you're right that if you are blocking Google from spidering your site by use of a robots.txt then this script will be useless to your visitors because it won't be able to search what you're not making available. You might check out http://www.lijit.com/ instead as a third-party blog search engine instead.

Thanks a lot it is very useful God bless you.

Thank you! It works alot and very useful for my homepage. ericard.webs.com

Hi dave. I am having a lot of difficulty with my website. I signed up with google adsense and i followed the steps. When I got to copying and pasting my html code they gave me, I get error on my page. I have tried created side bars and saving it and publishing it that way and I have been trying to add widgets and i copy my code but nothing. I am seeing ads by google on my site but no code. Its really werid and fustrating. I have been trying to do this for 2 weeks and been trying to get some online help and posting questions on the net. I am getting nowhere. Can you help me?

Thanks for the code - it works great - better than the standard google widget offering and I have started using it on my sites

Freddy

thank you you just help me better working on my website.

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the code, but can you tell me how place an image search button on the same page as a normal search button, I have tried myself but I can't seen to crack it.

Thanks, Sam

Sam, not sure what you're asking. If you want *buttons* then you can easily have something pointing to images.google.com. If you want multiple search boxes, that's easy too, just make sure that you have each form (that produces the input area and button) end with the </form> tag: many web site builders seem to be predicated on you having no more than one form on a page.

"Let me poke around, see if I can come up with the necessary Javascript... :-)"

Do you have anything?

Hi Dave: Please don't post my website in your public response. I am trying to add a search function using lotus notes (not my choice). We have a document library that is an https site. Ideally we'd like the search engine to go there. When I write this code in lotus notes - it appears fine. But when I search either "the web" or internally, I get the following error: HTTP Web Server: Invalid URL Exception -- can you explain why? And honestly, more importantly, how I can fix/work around this? Thank you! Scott

Scott, I'm afraid I don't know enough about Lotus Notes to be able to assist. Seems like if you can create a search box on a blank page, though, you should be able to cut and paste that same code onto any page on your site. Good luck!

Dave, in your reply to John Kiester, you said " just needs to have target="new" added and it'll redirect the result of that form to a new window called "new"". If you always...."

My question, How you change the Google search box and it is violate the Google policies?

Mark, we're not tweaking the search results window, we're just ensuring that it shows up in a separate window, rather than the same one. I really can't imagine Google caring (or even having any control over it). I'm sure it's not a terms of service problem.

I tried the free site search instructions on your url:http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_add_a_google_search_box_to_my_web_site.html
and it does not work. Is this an old suggestion now that Google charges to have an individual site search button? Wish it worked!! It just goes to the traditional google search page and you have to just enter what you want, no mention of my website..bummer!

The first question to ask, Mary, is whether your site is in Google in the first place. If so, then try doing some searches like

site:yourdomain.com test words

(where "yourdomain.com" is your actual domain). Do they work? Do you get results? Then you should definitely be able to get the search box here to work.

I have just tried your search box and it works fine on my site. Just wondered what code I need to add, so as to center the entire box instead of it being on the left

Many thanks. Works perfectly.

I have seen the question asked many times but I haven't seen a response. Is ther any way to eliminate the advertisements in the results?

Thanks

Jim, why would you think that there was a way to avoid having the advertisements on the search results page? :-)

I just wanted to say thanks for the great tip on the HTML code for the Google Search Box. I could have figured it out but this made it much easier.

Now I have it implemented on a custom start page for direct searches and to avoid their enlarged text and text box search page.

I found how to eliminate the advertisements. You need to pay $250.00 per year or more depending on your requirements.

Dave,
How would I turn the google search bar into a link? For example, I would want anything you put in the search bar and what you press to not matter, but only to send you to another page. Please get back to me soon.
-Elias

thanks for telling me how to add a search box to a website. Been wanting to add one to the Barradrum Farm (www.barradrumfarm.ie) website for ages. In my tests it is working perfectly, Thanks again, Tamar

Elias, I don't know how you would access the information someone has typed into their Google search bar, so I dunno how to do that.

Thank you for a great script!

Now, I would like an enhancement. Is there any way I can have the results of the search display within a page on my site?

Thank you Dave!

thanks dave. you made my life easier. I have been looking for this for ages.

Thank you for the code to start a Google search. Worked on first try. Was using free Pico Search but they don't search pdf files unless you pay.

Hi Dave, perhaps you can help me - I have added a Google custom search box to my homepage, and redirected the results to a page called /searchresults.aspx. When I try the search, it goes to the right page, but doesn't show any text at all.

If you are able to take a moment to look at the code, you will see the only difference there is to the code google issued me with is the "defer" command, which microsoft office live added itself.

Thanks in advance!

thanks dave. you made my life easier. I have been looking for this for ages.

Dave,

This is exactly, well almost exactly but close enough to what I was looking for. Excellent, clean, short nice. The only improvement I did was to move the "search" button to the right of the text box. Sometimes when suggestions pop up they cover the search button.

Thanks for sharing this.

John

I added the google search box!SUCCESSFULLY..... THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

Have published the site now with the search box, thanks again Dave, Tamar (www.barradrumfarm.ie)

Hi Dave,
i still have one question.Your program works fine but how do i get rid of the checkboxes and force the user to only search for my sitedomain?
Thanks.
alvin

Sry,another question...
Can i search for information only in a certain folder under my domain? Example testing.com/Folder?

Thanks Dave 4 the article. I was wondering if i could redirect the output of search to some div in my webpage rather than making the whole page redirect to google. I need help on this.

Thanks in advance

Sry,another question...
Can i search for information only in a certain folder under my domain? Example testing.com/Folder?

Have published the site now with the search box, thanks again Dave, Tamar (www.barradrumfarm.ie)

Hi Dave, I have managed to do some tweaking with javascript so as to enable muliple forms in a page, so as to enable the page to do some other postback also rather than just searching.

function abcd()
{
var i = document.getElementById('A1');
var j = document.getElementById('q');

if( j.value !="")
{
i.href = "http://www.google.co.in\\search?q=" + j.value + "&sitesearch=cyborgit.in";
}
}

Where A1 is the link

I hope it helps some one....

but my question remains...... can i redirect the google search to some div within my form

hi dave I found this very useful. Please email me after looking at the website and rate it. Speaking of rate you should show how to put a comment box or a 5 star rate system thanks alot

hi dave, my doubt is how to link my hyperlinks to my google adsense search box and it should get the result page.
example: when visitors click hyperlink of wallpapers on my website it should get the search results from my google adsense for search.
please provide solution for this problem.
thank u

Hi,
I want the results to appear in an ifram on another page on my site .. how do i do this. I have tried using target="iframe_name" but it just opens the results in a new window. I use Webplus X2

Thanks Dave. Helped a lot!!!

Hi,
Thank you for having this website and continuing to answer questions on this topic. I have a google search box on my website and I am wondering if there is a way to have a hidden search term which will always be included in the search. For example, if you wanted to always include the word "wiki" as a search term. Is there a way to add this as a search term so that when a user types "puppies" it actually searches on "puppies wiki"? Thanks.

Thanks for the help this is useful.

I want to add a radio tab along with others for image search, please help!

Dear Dave,

You are doing a great job for web professionals. I have one small doubt, please guide me. I have one website named www.logontowww.com . (1) In this site can i use the code shown below?

(2) Is there any terms or rule violation for using this feature ?

Dear Dave,

only Research page of my site is in search results... why is this happens?

All the best!