Creating a search form for your Web site

You can use the Yale Google Search Appliance by adding the Yale Google Search Appliance search form shown below to your own Web site. You can also use techniques to search only specific areas of Yale or your own department Web site. The following is a basic approach to adding Yale’s Google Search Appliance search to your Web site.

This version (below) search form allows you to choose which search collection you want to use. Please contact the Yale Webmaster if you would like to set up a search collection that covers just your particular web site. To set up a new custom search collection we'll need the URL for your web site, which must be within Yale's normal web domain (yale.edu).

Search box example

This is an example of a basic search box for the Yale Google Search Appliance:

You can download a text file of this code, or copy the code from the source of this page and add it to your own pages.

Related links

• Search collection examples
• Directory links