MIT Google on your web site
Add a search box to your site
You can add a search box to your web site to help visitors find
content on your site. You can restrict the search to a specified
directory or search the entire MIT web site. The search box will look
and behave like this:
Important: If you have created an
MIT-Google search form in the past for your site, please note that the following instructions have been updated for Google v4 compability. Please see Migrating to Google v4 for additional details.
1. Insert the following HTML into
your web page where you want the search box to appear (parameters in bold can be customized):
| <form method='get' action='http://search.mit.edu/search'>
<input type='text' name='q' size='32'
maxlength='255' value=''/>
<input type='submit' name='btnG' value='Search'/>
<input type='hidden' name='site' value='mit'/>
<input type='hidden' name='client' value='mit'/>
<input type='hidden' name='proxystylesheet'
value='mit'/>
<input type='hidden' name='output' value='xml_no_dtd'/>
<input type='hidden' name='as_dt' value='i'/>
<input type='hidden' name='as_sitesearch'
value='web.mit.edu/your_URL' />
</form> |
- An example of the your_URL format would be "web.mit.edu/newsoffice" or "itinfo.mit.edu". Do not use a final
slash on your url.
- Use single quotes as show in the code example above.
- If you have been
using the Infoseek search feature on your page, be
sure to replace the complete Infoseek HTML
section of your page with the complete Google
HTML section above.
2. Customize the following parameters:
- name='q' size='32'
Sets the width (in number of characters) of the search
box. You can change the size to suit your site's layout,
but don't change the maxlength value.
- name='btnG' value='Search'
The text that appears on the search button.
e.g.:
"Search News Office")
If you want to restrict
your search feature to a specific directory
(and its subdirectories), include the following two
parameters (as_dt and as_sitesearch).
If you want the search feature on your
site to search the entire
MIT collection, remove these two parameters
from your HTML.
name='as_dt' value='i'
This setting determines whether your search should
include or exclude the directory specified in 'as_sitesearch'.
Values can be:
- 'i' (include only results in the web directory
specified by as_sitesearch)
- 'e' (exclude all results in the web directory
specified by as_sitesearch)
name='as_sitesearch' value='<yoururl>'
Pages in the specified directory will be included
in or excluded from your search (according to the
value of 'as_dt').
e.g.:
name='as_sitesearch' value='web.mit.edu/newsoffice'
- You must specify the complete canonical name of
the host server followed by the path of the directory.
e.g.: web.mit.edu/newsoffice
not web/newsoffice
- If the ("/") character is at the end of the web
directory path specified, then only files within
that directory will be searched and files in sub-directories
will not be considered.
e.g.:
web.mit.edu/newsoffice
to include sub-directories
web.mit.edu/newsoffice/
to exclude sub-directories
- as_sitesearch allows allows you to specify one
directory (and all its sub-directories) as the domain
to be searched—you cannot specify multiple
disparate directories using this option
(See additional
parameters for options that allow you
to specify multiple URLs, and information about
requesting a collection.)
- If you want the search feature on your site to
search the entire MIT web site, delete this
parameter.
name='proxystylesheet' value='mit'
This parameter specifies the stylesheet for the display of the search results.
The
default MIT search site style includes the standard MIT navigation header, and
provides options for People and Offices Directory search.
If you would prefer to design and use your own search results stylesheet, see
Using Custom Stylesheets.
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