How To Add Custom Google Search to your website

Want fast Google powered search on your website?

Creating fast, user defined search adds a service to your website that serves your visitor and you. Create the search engine, copy and paste some code to one of your web pages and then you can edit it later from your gmail account.

Add the credibility and reliability of Google powered search by following these steps (links open in a new window) :

1. Sign in or create a Gmail account.
2. Go to ~ http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
3. Create a name, description, keywords and what sites to search. You can copy and paste in a list of urls into the field to allow Google to emphasize or search exclusively.
4. Remember to tick the No Ads section at the bottom.
5. The next page will let you do some test searches and send yourself a convenient email reminder.
6. To manage your search engines visit ~ http://www.google.com/coop/manage/cse/
7. Click on the control panel link for the search engine you want to embed. Note: the Home Page link takes you to its own simple page on Google.
8. Click on the Code link. Now you can choose to host the results on Google or on your own site. The zippy and cool way to have them appear on your site is go choose the Modal Overlay which makes use of Ajax to return the results but still being on your website.
9. Take the resulting code from this page and copy and paste this into your static pages or a WordPress widget perhaps.
10. Test the new search engine on your site.