Live Search Box - Add search to your website or blog
Microsoft is current number three in the search engine race behind Google and Yahoo, but they recently re-branded their search offering to Live Search and even more recently updated their Live Search Engine. Like Yahoo Search Builder, Live search provides a customizable search box that can be used on any web page or blog that searches within a website or the entire web using the Live Search Engine.
The Live Search Box comes in two formats the basic search box or the advanced search box. The basic search box allows for the searching of a specific website or the entire web by copying and pasting a pre formatted code unto a web page and editing the relevant section with the language code that your website is displayed in. The advanced search box offers more options and allows for the searching a specific websites and the customization of the look and feel of the search box produced.
Advanced Live Search Box Steps
- Choose get started under the advanced search box from the live search menu.
- Type in a display name for the search box being produced; enter the url of the websites or websites to be searched.
- Check or uncheck whether or not a search macro should be used or created for the search bar then click next.
- Customize the size, language and colour of the Live search bar, then click next.
- Finally copy and paste the code generated to the section of a webpage you would like the search bar displayed.
Graphical Representation of Steps
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Dont know if you could help, I need to add google search into the wordpress blog search box like the one you have here.
Do you know how to do it ? It would be a good article to write..
tutorials for the yahoo search box and the live search box have been written. One for the google search box integration will be written soon.
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does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?