Saturday 24 September 2011

Google Custom Search Engine

Using Google CSE module on Drupal Sites

The most beautiful thing that I like about Drupal CMS is that there is a contributed module for almost everything. You just have to know your requirements and search effectively for specific module. While you are searching for Google custom Search Engine you must already know what is the use of this Google feature. More information about Google custom Search Engine can be taken from http://www.google.com/cse. 

Now when you go on the above link they ask you for either creating a new Google custom Search Engine or managing old ones. Lets make a new search engine for our website. It takes only 3 steps. Firstly you have to give the name, description, sites to search description. Secondly you have to make changes to look and feel of search box and finally get the code.
Once you have generated your own site code, download and extract contributed drupal module from http://drupal.org/project/google_cse. Put this module in modules folder of your site. Enable this module by going in admin/modules section of your site administrator. When you go in site configuration and click on Google CSE you will be asked for CSE unique ID which we already have generated from http://www.google.com/cse/manage/all. Thats it. Our google search engine is ready to work. A block is generated by this module which can be activated for showing a search form wherever we need. This feature is readily used in sites made in Drupal and whose database is very big.

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