Add Google Video, News, and Local Search to Your Site

There are now more ways to Google-fy your site. You can now enhance your site's search capabilities, provide more content, and increase the interactivity of your site with Google Video, News, and Local Search using their AJAX Search Wizards which "allow you to add a video, news, and local search results to your web page without writing any code. Just tell us how you want the widget to display and what searches to automatically execute, and the wizard will generate the code for you to copy and paste into your web page". (Source: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/02/enhance-your-site-with-google-search.html). The displays are configurable to vertical or horizontal orientations, and customizable by way of modifying the CSS and JavaScript. Very cool! I have added the Video Bar to the right hand side of my blog and we also have the Map Search on the WebGuild directions page.

It would be super cool if users could search across the board one of these days e.g. search for an item and get a mashup of web, image, video, and blog search results; or better yet, select which search criteria they would like to search against such as video and web versus being siloed to only just web or image or video or blog searches, for instance.

Try it out for yourself!