EE: Google Mini Plugin

This plugin lets you integrate search results from your Google Mini search appliance (GM) into ExpressionEngine seamlessly. This post now provides a place for support for the Low Google Search plugin.

Download and docs for Low Google Search can be found in the Software section

March 19th 2008 | Add-Ons, ExpressionEngine, Searching | 11 comments

Comments

  1. 1 Ian May 2nd 2008, 19:48

    You sir, are a god-send. This is just the plugin I’ve been looking for! This greatly simplifies my life and you’ve saved me hours upon hours of coding.

  2. 2 wecreateyou August 21st 2008, 18:49

    Hey, I’m going to try this this weekend. Sounds great! Thanks for sharing.

  3. 3 Brent January 29th 2009, 05:14

    Will this plugin work with Google’s similar hosted “SiteSearch” service?

    http://www.google.com/sitesearch/

  4. 4 Nathan Pitman October 6th 2009, 11:35

    Hi there, this looks great - I’d also be interested to know if this can be hacked to work with Google Site Search. :)

  5. 5 Low October 6th 2009, 12:42

    I’m unfamiliar with Google Site Search, I’m afraid. I guess it depends largely on whether Google Site Search can also return its results in XML format, and if so, if the XML-tree resembles the Google Mini output.

  6. 6 Brent October 6th 2009, 14:51

    Nathan, it can be used with sitesearch (the XML returned is the same) but I think I had to modify the parameters sent to the sitesearch service - something like this:

    var $params = array(

    ‘q’ => ”,
    ‘oe’ => ‘utf8′,
    ‘ie’ => ‘utf8′,
    ‘output’ => ‘xml_no_dtd’,
    ‘cx’ => ”, // req
    ‘client’ => ‘google-csbe’,
    ’start’ => ‘0′,
    ‘num’ => ‘10′
    );

  7. 7 Low October 6th 2009, 15:03

    That’s pretty cool, Brent. Do you have an example online, somewhere?

  8. 8 Nathan Pitman July 27th 2010, 00:22

    Hi Brent, do you have a version of this plug-in that you could share, I gotten part way down the line with making this work with Google Site Search but pagination seems to be a problem, specifically the plug-in doesn’t seem to pick up the ’start’ value from the query string - I wonder if this is actually a bug with the original Google Mini version too?

  9. 9 Low July 27th 2010, 08:48

    By the way, Nathan - a 2.0 version of this add-on is in the making. If you’re interested in a beta, let me know.

  10. 10 Brett August 5th 2010, 21:26

    Does the current version of this work with EE 2.1?? (Please say yes…) This would HUGELY simplify my life!

  11. 11 Low August 6th 2010, 08:33

    Brett, the current version is not compatible with EE2. But I’ve got a beta version that is. Drop me an email if you want to try that one out.

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