News: Xoops Custom Search Engine powered by Google
Posted by: ggudduOn 2006/11/5 1:50:00 12507 readsHello Xoops friends,
We've created a dedicated search engine(powered by Google Search engine) for Xoops related information and it's hosted by Google.
The homepage of Xoops search engine is
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004320718276815753479%3Adqwj8p7lq8i
1. What is a Xoops Custom Search Engine?
A Xoops Custom Search Engine is a tailored search experience, built using Google's core search technology, which prioritizes or restricts search results based on Xoops websites and pages that we specify.
2. How does the Xoops Custom Search Engine work?
Simply submit websites or pages you'd like to include in our xoops search engine index. You can choose either to restrict your search results to include only these pages and sites, or simply to give these pages and sites higher priority and ranking in the larger Google index.
3. What are the websites included now?
I've just included what I visit often to keep me updated about xoops. Please free to add your favourited to the index which will give the right information what xoops users would like to see in their search results.
https://xoops.org
http://www.xoopspro.com
http://www.smartfactory.ca
http://www.xoops-tips.com
http://www.xoopsfactory.com
http://www.mywebresource.com
http://www.warpigw2.com
4. How does everyone access the Xoops Search Engine?
There are several ways to access our Xoops Custom Search Engine:
* Use the Google-hosted Xoops Search Engine homepage
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004320718276815753479%3Adqwj8p7lq8i
* You can place the Xoops Search Engine search box on your own website, where anyone who visits your site can use it. Paste this code in the page where you'd like your search box to appear. The search results will be shown on a Google-hosted page.
<form id="searchbox_004320718276815753479:dqwj8p7lq8i" action="http://www.google.com/cse">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="004320718276815753479:dqwj8p7lq8i" />
<input name="q" type="text" size="40" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:0" />
form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_004320718276815753479%3Adqwj8p7lq8i">script>
* You can add a Xoops Search Box Gadget to your Google personalized homepage that contains a search box for your search engine. Paste this code in the page where you would like the button to appear:
<a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?moduleurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcoop/api/004320718276815753479/cse/dqwj8p7lq8i/gadget"><img src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif" width="104" height="17" border="0" alt="Add to Google">a>
For more information about Google Custom Search Engine, please visit
http://www.google.com/coop/docs/cse/
Please free to add more xoops websites in our Xoops Search Engine. I hope it's useful to some of us :)
Cheers,
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