Improved Searching

Thanks to Google!

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Google has a wonderful service which allows website developers to embed a Google Search Box into their websites and customize where it will search (for example, my custom search will only search my website, although I could add others to it). This is a fairly old service, but I have finally found a use for it.

To make the most of this, I have removed my own search boxes from the Blog and Forum and embedded Google's in all pages, although there are some limitations. For example, Google cannot access member's accounts (and so you cannot use it to search through your Address Book contacts, etc.), so you will have to continue using my own search for the member's pages.


Posted by cwassall on 30th March 2008 at 8:37 p.m.

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