Google Search Site

Google search was added to this blog a while back and seemed to work OK but I was aware that the results provided were not fully complete for the search term provided.

I've just discovered the reason why. When generating the code to be added to the page you want to display the search box on you're asked to provide the URL of the site you want the search to apply to. At first I used a URL of www.digital-air.co.uk, which seems perfectly correct to me but Google Search prefers, and provides fuller results, if you use a URL of the form digital-air.co.uk. A quick change to the code and it seems to be working much better now. Top tip if you're thinking of adding Google Search to your own site.

Google still seems to ignore the robots.txt file I created telling the spider to keep out of the monthly archives as it only confuses the results, strange that but hopefully my dear readers will be able to find the pearls of wisdom liberally scattered throughout this site much easier now.

Tags: Google Search