digitalpoint
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Posted: 01/22/2004 12:12 pm
You guys tired of my tools yet? 
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/search/
Takes the programming complexity out of adding a "search this site" function to any website. It uses Google on the backend (via the Google API, so you don't break their TOS), which means you don't need a database or anything on your server.
The only requirement is that you need a PHP enabled web server.
- Shawn
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Webmaster-Toolkit.com
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
# Posts: 1098
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Posted: 01/22/2004 12:17 pm
Does it send a query like this to Google?
site:www.yoursite.com keywords
Cuz I had exactly the same idea earlier on today. If so, bah, you beat me to it 
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 01/22/2004 12:20 pm
Yep... I made it easy to use though... where the "complex" stuff is handled off the server. Since most people don't know how or have the ability to compile PHP for SOAP functionality. So basically, it's one PHP file... you put your Google API key and the site you want it to search, and you are golden.
I only had the idea last night... so I didn't beat you by much.
- Shawn
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 02/06/2004 11:51 am
Made a few minor additions to it... the main one being that now instead of only searching an entire site (www.cnn.com for example), you can specify the site to search as: www.cnn.com/tech/ and the system will only search within that part of the site.
- Shawn
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jbgilbert
Joined: Sep 16, 2002
# Posts: 321
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Posted: 02/06/2004 12:42 pm
Shawn,
Google has a free Google "search your site" script at
http://www.google.com/searchcode.html.
How does the tool you built differ from that?
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 02/06/2004 12:48 pm
That HTML code basically hands you off to Google (they leave your site)... Doing it that way, a search within digitalpoint.com for the word "billing" for example takes the user to this page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.digitalpoint.com+billing
Using my system, you get:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/results.php?q=billing
Same results, but you keep the users on your site (and you control the formatting to work with your site's look/feel).
- Shawn
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jbgilbert
Joined: Sep 16, 2002
# Posts: 321
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Posted: 02/06/2004 01:47 pm
Okay... how about this.
What if I used your tool and put my adsense on it?
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 02/06/2004 02:33 pm
Fine with me... although technically you aren't supposed to put AdSense on dynamic content. The thing about it also would be you would get public service ads on it every time, until Google spiders it, then someone searched on the same keywords again later. So truthfully it probably wouldn't work all that well. But you are free to do whatever you want...
- Shawn
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jbgilbert
Joined: Sep 16, 2002
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Posted: 02/07/2004 03:41 pm
shawn,
great answer. i had looked into this before with another site search tool and found the exact same thing -- PSA ads.
Google has an on site search tool that does exactly what I want, but I'm too small for them to even consider allowing its' use.
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 02/07/2004 03:43 pm
Yep... AdSense Premium... 20 million or more page views per month.
- Shawn
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 08/02/2004 12:15 pm
Made a minor (but cool) little update to the search system. You can optionally have it make spelling suggestions. And it's quite good at it... for example:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/search.php?q=optigld+billing+sftware
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Webmaster-Toolkit.com
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
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Posted: 08/03/2004 02:30 am
Does the API give spelling suggestions now then?
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 08/03/2004 08:07 am
It's always been able to...
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