Introduction
In many huge contented websites it is very difficult to find some information
like any link, page, text etc. So, they use a textbox where visitor types his
keyword to search. There are couple of ways to create it like, to search the
content from database, crawler. But if you don't have such things then we use
Google Custom Search. In Google Custom Search, we create account in Google and
provide the domain information to Google and then Google generates some codes
which are used inside our web application. If we use the Google Custom Search
codes in our application, then Google searches the content from your website. It
is available in cost-free and paid also. In cost-free there will be some
advertisement of Google.
Let's take a look how to create it.
Creating Account in Google Custom Search
To create Google Custom Search account use the following link
http://www.google.com/cse/
Click above link to create Google Custom Search, you will find a form as given
below.
At the end of this process you will receive some codes generated by Google and
you have to keep it for use inside web application. Here is code given Google
for my own domain ITORIAN.COM.
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/cse/api/014464787619631746113/cse/67a_iw-duna/gadget&synd=open&w=250&h=100&title=ITORIAN+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C0px%2C1px+solid+%23998899%7C0px%2C1px+solid+%23aa99aa%7C0px%2C2px+solid+%23bbaabb%7C0px%2C2px+solid+%23ccbbcc&output=js"></script>
And I
have used it inside the <div> tag in web page, as given below
<div>
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/cse/api/014464787619631746113/cse/67a_iw-duna/gadget&synd=open&w=250&h=100&title=ITORIAN+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C0px%2C1px+solid+%23998899%7C0px%2C1px+solid+%23aa99aa%7C0px%2C2px+solid+%23bbaabb%7C0px%2C2px+solid+%23ccbbcc&output=js"></script>
</div>
It is screenshot of my web page where I have used above code.
HAVE A HAPPY CODING!