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Add the Search Feature to Your Website

By Mohammad Yousef | June 2004

Having a search feature is essential for any website and if your website doesn’t have it, you’ll be making things harder for your visitors. Even the most detailed site map won’t be enough for your site’s visitors to get exactly what they’re looking for. Fear not, my friend, even if you’re a newbie webmaster. Thanks to Google, it’s as simple as copy, paste and search!

All you have to do is copy the following code and paste it in your web page’s HTML:

<!-- SiteSearch Google -->
<FORM method=GET action="http://www.google.com/search">
<TABLE bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td>
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">
<IMG SRC="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif"
border="0" ALT="Google"></A>
</td>
<td>
<INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=31 maxlength=255 value="">
<INPUT type=submit name=btnG VALUE="Google Search">
<font size=-1>
<input type=hidden name=domains value="YOUR DOMAIN NAME"><br><input type=radio name=sitesearch value=""> WWW <input type=radio name=sitesearch value="YOUR DOMAIN NAME" checked> YOUR DOMAIN NAME <br>
</font>
</td></tr></TABLE>
</FORM>
<!-- SiteSearch Google -->

Just make sure you replace every occurrence of “YOUR DOMAIN NAME” in the code with (of course) your domain name. You think this is great?! How about customizing your search results to suit the layout of your site and including your logo on results pages? You like the sound of that, right? All it takes is a couple more steps. Click here for details.