Google Custom Searching in ASP.NET


Introduction

In large contented websites it is very difficult to find some information like any link, page, text etc. So, they use a textbox where visitor types his keyword to search. There are couple of ways to create it like, to search the content from database, crawler. But if you don’t have such things then we use Google Custom Search. In Google Custom Search, we create account in Google and provide the domain information to Google and then Google generates some codes which are used inside our web application. If we use the Google Custom Search codes in our application, then Google searches the content from your website. It is available in cost-free and paid also. In cost-free there will be some advertisement of Google. Let’s take a look how to create it.

Creating Account in Google Custom Search

To create Google Custom Search account use the following link
http://www.google.com/cse/
Click above link to create Google Custom Search, you will find a form as given below.
 

At the end of this process you will receive some codes generated by Google and you have to keep it for use inside web application. Here is code given Google for my own domain ITORIAN.COM.


<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/cse/api/014464787619631746113/cse


/67a_iw-duna/gadget&amp;synd=open&amp;w=250&amp;h=100&amp;title=ITORIAN Search&amp;border=


%23ffffff%7C0px%2C1px solid %23998899%7C0px%2C1px solid %23aa99aa%7C0px%2C2px solid %23bbaabb%7C0px%2C2px


solid %23ccbbcc&amp;output=js"></script>


And I have used it inside the <div> tag in web page, as given below


<div>
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/cse/api/014464787619631746113/cse


/67a_iw-duna/gadget&amp;synd=open&amp;w=250&amp;h=100&amp;title=ITORIAN Search&amp;border=


%23ffffff%7C0px%2C1px solid %23998899%7C0px%2C1px solid %23aa99aa%7C0px%2C2px solid %23bbaabb%7C0px%2C2px


solid %23ccbbcc&amp;output=js"></script>
</div>



It is screenshot of my web page where I have used above code.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Customize User's Profile in ASP.NET Identity System

Image
Note: You should read this post instead, I found below walkthrough will not work on ASP.NET Identity 2. I will re-work on this post soon. In this post you will learn how to customize User’s Profile and add some more fields like FirstName, LastName, EmailID etc with ASP.NET Identity System. In my last post I listed some of the great new features introduced with Identity system .
Read More »

Migrating database from ASP.NET Identity to ASP.NET Core Identity

Image
As you know ASP.NET Core Identity (table structure) is different from what we had earlier in ASP.NET Identity. Actually the identity system which we have today with .NET Core is very mature and continuously evolved be it ASP.NET Membership, ASP.NET Identity 1, ASP.NET Identity 2 and now ASP.NET Core Identity. Recently I had to migrate few application to ASP.NET Core and similar its identity database. Because the table schema is changed, i had to re-think and create migration script which I would like to share with you today. It is very simple and easy, just three step and I had everything ready: STEP 1 : Change name of existing tables STEP 2 : Create ASP.NET Core Identity tables STEP 3 : Migrate data from old tables (ASP.NET Identity) to new tables (ASP.NET Core Identity) Script:  https://gist.github.com/itorian/c699e8534b392a6c726ec66c48100072 You should also watch my video, where I demoed migration.
Read More »