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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 have been reporting this to official CSE google groups here but they still cant answered it, so maybe this just happening in this hack :
everytime new people open my site they get Privacy Report
warning (red eyes sign in the left bottom), for example open this site
you will get Privacy Report warning : http://mygtblog.org/
this is very annoying for me, i think this just happened in ie 6, i
dont get that warning in firefox
please give the trick how to remove Privacy Report warning
Hmmm, for an "SEO specialist and forum coordinator" you sure don't know the obvious..
you can learn more about the "Privacy Report warning (red eyes sign in the left bottom" by reading IE's help
still can't figure it out..
Hint: 3rd party cookies are blocked
if that doesn't - stop calling yourself a "SEO specialist and forum coordinator"
hi dude, no it is general problem that everybody have in ie default standart, there are 7000 person a day in my forum, i dont want to tell them all to change they ie setting
How do i get google search to appear under the advanced search in the search pulldown menu (see pic 1 in first post).?
As it is now, i can only get it sowrking if i put gtsearch.php as a link in my navbar...but i'd like it underneath the normal advanced search as shown above.
Ok, got it all to work as i wanted except that i still get " The following errors occurred with your search" when i click on the search link..
One other thing ...and it might not be a thing you can alter, but is there a way to have different colorschemes according to the different skins/styles i use?
i have different templates so i'd like different colorsschemes .. if possible
I THOUGHT that the url: www.mysite.com/forum/gtsearch.php would bring up the search input screen. I want to have a link to that search screen from anywhere on my site, not just in the forum.
Is this a faulty assumption?
My search works perfectly from the navbar pull-down.
How do I get a search input screen that can be referenced from any url?
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02-03-2008, 02:33 AM
