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Why doesn't Google web search work?

Drupalace — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:31:06 -0800

(I asked and answered this question elsewhere on my site, before creating the Question Bank. I'll repeat it here in the Bank for completeness.)

Recap

As described earlier, I've placed many a Google web search block into Drupal sites, using Google AdSense for Search.

https://www.google.com/adsense/search-settings

All to a single end: the blocks don't work. (Hey, consistency counts for something, right?)

Fixed: Google web search block

Drupalace — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:24:04 -0700

Recap

As described earlier, I've placed many a Google web search block into Drupal sites, using Google AdSense for Search.

https://www.google.com/adsense/search-settings

All to a single end: the blocks don't work. (Hey, consistency counts for something, right?)

It's always something: Google web search blocks don't work!

Drupalace — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:32:42 -0700

I replaced Drupal's built-in search with Google search on several sites. From my Google AdSense account, I created the AdSense for Search code, and plugged into a Drupal block.

For a while, it seemed to work fine. The user selects whether to search on the web or on the site, inputs the search terms, and hits the button. Appropriate results show up on a "search results" page (which is a regular Drupal Page containing HTML code specified by Google, to catch and display the search results).