Search Engine is a PHP tool for anyone that
wants to add search functionality to their website, but does not have
the technical background or server means to do so. As long as your site
is on Google's index the search ability will be present for users.
Search Engine Script - Put Search Functionality On Your WebsiteThis
tool is for anyone that wants to add search functionality to their
website, but does not have the technical background to do so. It
utilizes Google to do the "heavy lifting", so you do not need a
database on your server or run processes to keep your site indexed. So
basically, if your site is in Google's index, it will work for you.
There are two requirements to use this tool:
- Your web server needs to be PHP enabled
- You need a free Google API key.
How does this work?In
simple terms, it's done with Google SOAP/XML API, which is free for
people to use for non-commercial use. A few interesting things to
note...
This system will work with any language/character set.
Google mentions on their API site, that Japanese, Korean and Chinese
language searches don't work properly. Well, after investigating, the
problem is with the supplied SOAP client, not the Google backend, so we
wrote our own SOAP client from scratch (which works for all languages).
Most
SOAP clients for PHP require that you recompile PHP, the way we set it
up is the system goes through our web server for the complicated
programming stuff. That way you don't need to recompile PHP, or even
understand how SOAP/XML work. Even though the requests go through us,
it's solely for the purpose of making it easy on you. We do not record
or log your API key, what you are searching for, etc. We have no desire
to be "big brother".
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