Thursday, January 6, 2011

Search-results pages

A large magifying glass distorts the face of a person holding it in front of them
Photo: Marten Newhall

Searching your blog for a word or a phrase in Blogger's navbar (or from Blogger's sidebar search gadget) generates a dynamic page of those posts that include the search phrase.

The results of this search take the familiar form of all of Blogger's dynamic pages: posts, spilling automatically into archived pages if needed.

Unlike other dynamic pages, however, the default order is "by relevance," as determined by some undocumented algorithm. There is a link to sort the posts into the familiar reverse chronology. 

3 comments:

  1. If you use Google Custom Search, then (unless you pay $US100) you will have AdSense ads displayed on the search results. The good news is that if you're an AdSense publisher, then these can be YOU ads, which is A Good Thing all round.

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    1. note: Mary's well-taken comment from 2011 describes "Google custom search," an option I once recommended in this post. Today, built-in search is much improved, so I deleted that recommendation (but not Mary's comment).

      It is still worth knowing about Custom Search, though.

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  2. Mary, those are both very good points, thanks!

    My experience with Google Search as a sidebar widget (on my other blog) has been a bit different, however. I get no ads from searches there.

    I suppose Google could change that at any time, though.

    By the way: Mary has a blog devoted to blogger tips of all kind that might be of interest to anyone who reads Too Clever.

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