Feature #334
Add Google Custom Search
| Status: | New | Start date: | 2011-11-17 | |
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| Priority: | Low | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Chris Cannam | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - |
Description
Maybe a nice alternative to the site search, addressing #333 to some extent would be to add a Google custom search box.
History
#1
Updated by Chris Cannam about 13 years ago
58410c63bb84 (branch feature_334) experimentally adds a Google custom search field to the search view and attempts to style the results to fit in.
It works well -- except when Google decide to serve some ads along with it. The ads are ghastly. Remember when Google used to provide text-only ads so as not to make their results pages look as hideous as the ones with banner ads that we'd been getting used to in other sites?
#2
Updated by Chris Cannam about 13 years ago
- Priority changed from Normal to Low
... so anyway, unless we're going to pay USD100/year for Google Site Search (same thing but without ads) I suggest we give it a miss. We don't want to be serving ads if we can help it from this site anyway. Downgrading priority.