On March 15th, we announced the Blog Bar. Like the News Bar, and Video Bar, the Blog Bar has seen phenomenal adoption.In the announcement message we asked for your feedback and ideas for improvement. Based on your feedback, we have updated the Blog Bar…
On February 7, we announced the availability of the Google News Bar. This cut-and-paste search control is simple to use and has seen phenomenal adoption.Anytime we launch a new AJAX Search API feature, we ask you to share your thoughts with us in the A…
In late January we announced the inclusion of YouTube Video results in the Google Video search index. Early this evening, we updated the Google AJAX Search API to include YouTube Video results via the GvideoSearch object.For those of you using our adva…
We have always strongly supported those of you wishing to re-style AJAX search results. Each search result contains a number of properties (like title, visible url, snippet, etc.), as well as a standard .html property. Note: while it’s ok to re-style a…
The AJAX Search API has always included a localized text based Search Control where the user-interface is presented in the language of the site visitor. The API includes a number of advanced search controls including:Map Search ControlVideo BarVideo Se…
On Tuesday we announced our support for Custom Search Engines. We asked you for your input and many of you suggested that we add support for Custom Search Engine Refinements. This evening we launched support for Custom Search Engine Refinements in a wa…
Last night Google launched the Google Custom Search Engine. (You can read more on the Google Blog.) We added support for this to the AJAX Search API so you get results from your Custom Search Engine through GwebSearch().Your Custom Search Engine is …
The Video Bar has become a popular solution, and we really appreciate the great feedback and feature requests. We just implemented two of the most common feature requests:Option for smaller thumbnailsControl over the size of the video playerFor more i…
Many of you saw last week’s post on using the AJAX Search API in TypePad and Blogger and have already taken these ideas and enhanced your own blogs. An early adopter of the API known as “CyberCoder” had a cool idea… He envisioned a “Video Bar” that c…
Many of you have already integrated the Google AJAX Search API into your blogs. Yesterday, I built some sample integrations on both TypePad and on Blogger. I went a little overboard, but I did this to demonstrate a few ideas that you might want to clon…
As mentioned in the developer forum, we recently rolled out a new user interface for the search form that’s an integral part of the basic search control. Part of this change is better support for decoupling the search form from the result set and buil…
Last week my son asked me if I could show him how to add some videos to his music review blog. Instead of just putting one video on the blog, I decided that it would be sort of fun to have 100+ videos directly accessible from any blog or web page.The r…
One thing that’s been on our list for a while now is changing the current UI for switching between one search result, more search results, and all search results. The new treatment uses three buttons that let you quickly select one, more, or all searc…
This week I am speaking on Search APIs at the Search Engine Strategies Conference. Unfortunately, by the time I got around to reading the Hotel and Venue page, I discovered that all the recommended hotels are sold out.When I look at that page, all I s…
We made some changes over the last several days, relating mostly to GlocalSearch, but also impacting GblogSearch.Previously, GlocalSearch commingled address resolution results with local search results, providing things like “New York, NY 10038″ alongs…