8.6. Adding Google Searches to Your Site

No doubt you've noticed Google search boxes on sites ranging from Uncle Ralph's Fishing Cornucopia to mega-destinations like Amazon.com. You, too, can add a so-called Google box to your site, providing visitors with a handy shortcut for searching the whole Web. But even better, you can add a Google box that also lets people search your site—saving you the considerable trouble of implementing a local site search yourself and instead tapping the power of Google for your own pages. Figure 8-9 shows you an example.

Figure 8-9. The GoogleBox on www.boingboing.net lets visitors search simply by typing in their terms and picking whether they'd like Google to scour the entire Web or just the BoingBoing site.