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I wrote a post recently about using the google ajax search api in wordpress. Turned out it is a simple matter of putting the javascript in the header of the template, adding the onload function to the body tag and popping the div into a page or a post or even into the template.

I’ve set up a page here where you can see it in action.

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.
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I want me some tags and I want me a tag cloud. And i want it now so I’ve grabbed the ultimate tag warrior plugin (which looks to be a homegrown kiwi wordpress plugin!). had to make a few adjustments to make it play nicelywith the mod_rewrite in the .htaccess but looks to be working now … I think. Hence the waffly post about posting which is about enough of that … time to tag it. See if this little puppy works. The tag cloud on the front page should grow over time and start to show which tags are the most popular (at least with me) and thereby show what the blog is really about (or at least what I think it is about) but also give you the user a nifty alternative way of browsing. Clicking on a given tag will show you all the posts that have been tagged with that tag. Voila.