Custom modification brought to you by Joe Velez (aka Princeton vbulletin.org Admin).
1.0.0 VERSION (download GTSEARCH.zip)
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What is a Custom Search Engine?
A Custom Search Engine is a tailored search experience, built using Google's core search technology, that prioritizes or restricts search results based on websites and pages you specify. Your Custom Search Engine can be tailored to reflect your point of view or area of expertise. With a Custom Search Engine, you can:
Apply your website's look and feel to the search results page.
Provide search refinements within results pages to make it easier for searchers to find the information they're looking for.
Add sites to your search engine's index as you surf the web.
Invite friends and trusted users to co-edit and contribute to your search engine.
Make money from your Custom Search Engine by participating in Google's AdSense program.
Once you've defined your search engine index, Google will give you a simple piece of code for a search box to place on your site or blog. You'll then have the option to choose various customization options to make the look and feel and functionality of your search engine your own.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q) What exactly does this modification do? A) It integrates your CSE with your site - results are on your site not on a Google-hosted page.
Q) Can I run Adsense ads on the same page? A) No, it's Adsense Google's TOS. To earn money, you will need to associate your CSE with your Adsense account. You can do this by clicking the "Make Money" section of your custom search engine control panel.
Instructions
Upload gtsearch.php file to vbulletin root (same place where global.php file is located)
i would also like to see a live demo, been through all the pages and have not seen one, will install tommorrow if i can get an understanding of what it does etc, signed up to googles custom search engine so only got to install hack then add code to not show adsense on the search page
You can see a preview at the top of my forums. Just enter your query and hit enter (you can even do this as a guest).
How is it preventing you from losing visits, wraggster? Do you mean members would leave your site in favor of visiting Google directly before you "brought" Google to your site?
I just want to know how to get rid of the search box that came with vBulletin so I just have the Google CSE. Is it possible? Have any of you other members done this?
Hello,
is there a way to change the gtsearch.php file so that when a user is viewing the search results its location to be displayed on the "who's online" page of vbulletin?
Right now when a user is searching the website and viewing the results, ie beeing in the gtsearch.php page, the location for that user is "Unknown Location" and the URL (gtsearch.php together with the whole querystring) is shown. How can this be customized for example the location to be shown to be "Searching the forums"?
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11-03-2008, 02:16 PM
to get you to make this work for 3.8?
