October 25th,2006

Searching b5media

By Duncan Riley

OK, so all the net’s buzzing about Google’s new Co-op search product, so we really haven’t got much to add to what’s already been said, however it’s given b5media the opportunity for the first time to combine search across all our blogs, something certainly we’d been planning for the future, however today, thanks to the good folks at Google, something we can literally set up in a matter of minutes. And hence it’s my pleasure to announce the b5media search engine. OK, so it’s a seperate page, but there’s no need to visit it, we’ve implemented it right here in the top right hand corner here on the b5media.com page…and following in this post. Congrats to Google on a great new product, and search away! :-)




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Emerging Earth - b5media Implements Google’s Custom Search on October 25th, 2006 at 07:09

[…] A post up today by Duncan Riley on the main b5media site announces that Google has just saved the team some time by developing their Google Custom Search tool. […]

Jason on October 25th, 2006 at 07:11

This is great! FYI, it’s also super-easy to add the b5media search into the custom search drop-down in IE7
http://www.emergingearth.com/b5media-implements-googles-custom-search/

Easton Ellsworth on October 25th, 2006 at 09:31

Thanks Duncan. You showed us yours - here’s ours :). WAY faster than our Movable Type network search.

HART (1-800-HART) on October 25th, 2006 at 15:16

What a great idea .. Can I steal it? :D

HART (1-800-HART) on October 25th, 2006 at 19:06

This needs work .. good concept, but I personally didn’t like the results. Plus, I screwed up - after entering 55 of our sites, I foolishly tried to “preview” and it wiped everything clear and did not save it. So, I re-added all of the over again and saved first. Later, I went into my profile and found out that it actually DID save my first even though I never clicked Finish (warning for others)

Andy on October 26th, 2006 at 01:29

I can hereby declare that the Blue Fish Network were the first content network to place a Google search on our site (because I was too lazy to write my own search plugin). Everyone else is just copying us - especially b5media who blatantly stole our ‘top right’ positioning. And if you think moving the search button changes it? :)

HART: It’s OK for a start. It doesn’t pick everything up and I am still inclined to add my own custom system, but it’s pretty good, and saves load on my server.

Mary on October 31st, 2006 at 07:01

I wish I could make a subset: for the b5media, technology blogs and implement on thatdamnpc.com
any possibility? I’d like to see one for each subset: Family & relationships, Home & dining, etc.
thanks!
this is great!

John T. on November 5th, 2006 at 20:07

what happened to the search feature after your redesign went live… it’s missing now?

Kris on November 8th, 2006 at 14:13

I tried to use this but I could not for the life of me get it to work. I got frustrated and gave up figuring I would go back to using it sometime. Seems like a good product.

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Microsoft Weblog » Adding Google Custom Searches to IE7 on January 5th, 2007 at 18:40

[…] Adding Google Custom Searches to IE7 By Jason | Related entries in Corp. News, New Products, Speculation, Internet Explorer, Home User, Business Tools, b5media b5media just announced they’ve incorporated Google’s Custom Search into their main page. This allows visitors to search across all of b5media’s blogs for information they need. […]

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