TikiRobot Search
Google just launched a neat service called Google Co-op that lets you create a customized search engine for a single (or a couple sites) so I created one for TikiRobot and put it in our sidebar (it’s all the way at the bottom). There are some other revenue sharing and customization aspects associated with the service that I haven’t really explored yet, but there’s more info here. In the meantime, you can now find that long-lost-post that you’re pretty sure you saw on this site, but don’t remember what we tagged it (cause even i don’t remember what I tag things).
Any reason we don’t expose the WP search function in the sidebar?
I wasn’t sure how to turn on the WP search function, but I think the Google widget may be better because it’s faster. Plus they’ll give us a cut of any adsense click-throughs generated by a search.
Our comment captcha is broken, so Kevin Marks IMed me this comment:
May and the gang, do have a look at the Technorati searchlet:
http://technorati.com/developers/help/searchlet.html
It has the same ‘embed in sidebar’ thing going, but it actually understands what a blog post is so it doesn’t give loads of duplicates like Google.
Also, have a look at the Technorati info page for Tikirobot:
http://technorati.com/blogs/tikirobot.net/wp
just testing the captcha….
thanks for making us a favorite kevin! I am testing the captcha now….
another test
okay, I just popped in the technorati search widget as well. not sure which i like best yet. (the technorati page is certainly prettier, but i do like that google has a revenue sharing plan).
hmmm…so I just did a search for “spider” using the Google search widget and it pulled up mikey’s photo that Raj posted a while back…but when I did the same search with the Technorati widget, it didn’t return anything :-(