Home: Products: Plugins: Gossamer Links Plugins: Paid Plugins: 2.2.x Version: Google_Search

This plugin will let you use the Google' API system, so that you can show their search results on your directory! (i.e an option to your users, on your site). Pretty cool tool. Please note, you are limited to 1,000 search queries a day, as this is a new tool offered by Google. Most people wouldn't even use 100 clicks a day, so unless you have a large site, this plugin should be ideal for you. New feature, lets you enable this plugin to be run if no results are found in your directory (i.e a normal search is performed, but if no results are found - it will look for something on Google).


Please Note: If using this plugin on more than one site, you need one license per site!



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Plugin Description

This plugin will let you use the Google' API system, so that you can show their search results on your directory! (i.e an option to your users, on your site). Pretty cool tool. Please note, you are limited to 1,000 search queries a day, as this is a new tool offered by Google. Most people wouldn't even use 100 clicks a day, so unless you have a large site, this plugin should be ideal for you.

So, in short.. all you have to do (once the plugin is installed), is pass along google=1 along in the query string. i.e search.cgi?query=food&google=1. Its that simple!

Please note, this plugin requires the Net::Google plugin to be installed. This is available from CPAN.

New feature, lets you enable this plugin to be run if no results are found in your directory (i.e a normal search is performed, but if no results are found - it will look for something on Google).

Plugin Requirements

  • LinksSQL 2.2.0+
  • Net::Google Perl Module

Upcoming Features

I'm hoping to add the option for different country searches (i.e UK, French, German, etc) ... but I've yet to work out how to do this =)