Site Restricted Search - Turned On

[mhl]

Our normal mode of operation is to post API announcements and new
features on our blog, and maybe here, untill you all get used to the
idea, we might also post a short note with a pointer to the post.

In this case, there has been so much interest in this feature, I am
going to announce the new feature here in the message board...

We launched the Google AJAX Search API as a Version 0.1 API so that we
could take a little bit of time to gather feedback from you. We asked
you to provide us with feedback on the current API as well as suggest
features that we could add that would make your lives easier.

One suggestion that we have heard from many of you concerns site
restricted searching. You wanted to be able to implement a "Search my
site", "Search the web" quickly, easily, and with professional results
and styling.

This afternoon, we updated the service to include a handful of new
methods, documentation, and samples that should get you pointed in the
right direction.

Note: Documentation is updated, but has not been pushed to the public
servers yet. It will show up in the next code.google.com update.

For all searchers, you now have the ability to set a user defined label
for a specific searcher. This lets you replace the current system
defined label of "Web", "Blog", etc., with a label of your choice e.g.,
"My Site", "Amazon.com", etc. Since you might want to provide unique
styling for this searcher, we also added a new method that allows you
to specify a user defined class suffix to wrap the results for any
searcher. This is a pretty advanced feature, but for those of you that
have a knack for CSS, you will appreciate the cool new things this
allows you to do. And yes, our new sample application uses...

Finally, for site restrictions, the GwebSearch and GblogSearch classes
now support a .setSiteRestriction() method that forces search results
to be scoped based on the programmed restriction. Our sample
application demonstrates the use of this by configuring a web searcher
to only return results from Amazon, and by configuring a blog searcher
to only return posts from the Live Journal Nintendo DS blog.

Check out the sample at
http://www.google.com/uds/samples/apidocs/sitesearch.html

[CyberCoder]

Fantastic !!

Just what we needed, great implementation.

Thanks

[samearle]

again, thanks MHL!!! and google.