Adding MORE things..

After an ungodly evening of computer crashing and a morning full of shovelling, I'm back!

Attempt 1.3: Google Search Box
I know, I know.. why in the name of all that is holy is it NECESSARY to add more Google to the world? In short, it's not. In long, I feel I must see how difficult it is to be so cool.

So, I (ha) Googled "How to add a Google search box" and got a great hit for askdavetaylor.com. A really easy bit of coding (just copy and paste) and add to the "Add and Element" option in Blogger, and voila! Unfortunately, his advice doesn't seem to be working. I'm not sure if it's because it's a blog? Or because I can't make it work? The search Google part works well, but when I choose the box to just search my blog, no results. Perhaps you need to actually input meta data in order to get anything pulled up? It looks very sleek, and it does the Google job, but I want to be able to search my blog, too!

Attempt 1.3.1: Google Search Box
Onward to GoogleFree. It's clunky, it's ugly, and... it still doesn't work. It must be a blog issue? I'm Googling it to see! Hmm.. seems as though Google is notoriously bad at spidering blogs. Boo. There are a lot of other choices, though!

Attempt 1.4: Yahoo Search Box
Yahoo? Who knows, right? Wrong. None of the options for in-site search seem to work for blogs!!

Attempt 1.5: Technorati Search Box
Technorati = success? I think so! I should have started here. Now I'll know for next time. It's clean-looking on the blog, and it works just fine!

See bottom of page for search box choices: I've decided to keep up Dave Taylor's search box, but I deleted the little check box code bit about choosing only this site. It just doesn't work for blogs. And I've added the Technorati search for hyde_from_systems. One thing I've noticed about Blogger, every time I update a feature in the formatting section, I need to play around with things before I can edit that feature. Annoying. Sometimes I really do need to edit immediately!