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I don't see it anymore, but people used to put a google search bar on their website that would use the sitesearch parameter to restrict results to their domain.
by mjlee 5y ago
I don't see it anymore, but people used to put a google search bar on their website that would use the sitesearch parameter to restrict results to their domain.
It looks like there is a modern alernative - seems a little more complex to get going with which might be why it's not so common.
https://developers.google.com/custom-search https://developers.google.com/custom-search
- WalterBright 5y agoWe do it at https://dlang.org https://dlang.org It's not the greatest, as it seems to prefer to return references in D forums in preference to the manual pages, but it works well enough.
- totetsu 5y agoThere used to be a big yellow blackbox server called Google search appliance that you could put in your data center and get internally indexed white label google search.
- bboreham 5y agoBefore Google figured out what its business model was.
- hinkley 5y agoI was going to say something similar. It’s not common, but it happens. For small sites it should possibly happen more. If you’re working hard to achieve mediocrity, you should put that energy somewhere else where you can at least get to good.