Posted by Rajat Mukherjee, Group
Product Manager
What happens when you put together a popular blogging platform, a
customizable search experience and a flexible search API? You get a
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Search Box widget for Blogger, built using the
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AJAX Search API
, and powered by a
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Linked Custom Search Engine
(CSE).
Configure this widget on your Blogger blog and you can immediately
search not just your blog posts, but across all the link
lists/blogrolls you've set up on your blog and the links
you've made from your posts.
The widget is now available on
href="http://draft.blogger.com" >Blogger in Draft, Blogger's
experimental site. Once you've logged in and configured the
widget, visitors to your blog will see a search box there. The
search experience inherits your blog's look and feel, and is
uniquely flavored around pages you've linked to from your
blog.
To add the widget:
Edit your blog's layout.
Click on "Add a page element" and configure the
"Search Box" widget.
Your link lists will automatically show up as optional tabs for
your search; you can decide which ones you want to configure. Go
ahead — custom-search-enable your blog!
Update:
Re-posted with copy written for this blog.
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Posted by Brian Rakowski, Product
Manager
What could be worse than forgetting to bookmark the obscure page
you found that maps out the perfect walking tour of Venice? Having
bookmarked it on the computer sitting on your desk back at home,
6000 miles away, instead of on the laptop you brought along. Or how
about the frustration of being on a new computer and not
remembering your passwords because your browser on your old
computer automatically filled them in for you?
These sorts of frustrations inspired us to build a Firefox
extension that keeps your browser settings for all your computers
in sync.
href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/index.html" >Google
Browser Sync unifies your bookmarks, history, saved passwords,
and persistent cookies across all the computers where you install
it. It also remembers which tabs and windows you had open when you
last closed any of your browsers and gives you a chance to reopen
them. We think you'll enjoy how it handles sync conflicts and
"just works," enabling you to bring your browser with you
everywhere.
Meanwhile, we've also been improving version 2 of the
href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/"
>Google Toolbar for Firefox.
We've fixed a bunch of bugs and made it more stable, so
we're stripping off the "beta" tag. We'll be
updating all Toolbar users to this new version in the next couple
of weeks.
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