You can read the posting directly before this one to see some of the dangers of using Google’s Search Box on your website, and this is especially true of Churches. On Google’s page with the code for puting a great little search box on your website, they give you three options.
I want number 4, which doesn’t exist, but its easy to make it yourself…
Google’s search bar on you site makes a lot of sense. It’s powerful and only takes a few lines of code. But as I observed on the Anglican Media Melbourne Website (http://www.media.anglican.com.au/), sometimes it actually works against you. I had a request for information on "what the church says about sexuality"? I remember there being some sort of "official" statement somewhere, and after chasing link around for a little while ended up at the abolvementioned site. Aha! A google search box. No doubt that will help me find any statement thats been released. So I plugged in "sexuality" an hit go, searching only the Anglican Media Website. That should be safe! Unfortunately it doesn’t just return results from the website, but also sponsored links. Here was what I got:
