Tonight I’m experimenting with a new beta gadget from Google labs - ajax search. With an API you can embed a Google Search in your web pages and other web applications. But not just any old Google search box - no sir.
The Google AJAX Search API provides simple web objects that perform inline searches over a number of Google services (Web Search, Local Search, Video Search, Blog Search, and News Search). If your web page is designed to help users create content (e.g. message boards, blogs, etc.), the API is designed to support these activities by allowing them to copy search results directly into their messages.
Nice. So I’ve popped one together here. Next I’ll need to integrate it into Wordpress but that’s a job for another rainy day.
I’ve commented out the ‘local’ search because it didn’t find anything using ‘Auckland, NZ’ instead of the default ‘New York, US’ … but maybe I got the syntax wrong.
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