More localized search controls
February 15th, 2007 | Published in Google Ajax API
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 Control
- Video Bar
- Video Search Control
- News Bar
- Book Bar
The AJAX Search API auto-detects the user-interface language of your visitors and adjusts the UI accordingly. If you want to, you can hard code the user-interface language by using the &hl argument in your AJAX Search API script load tag. For example, to hard code your user-interface language to french, change your load tag to include:
As always, please let us know what you think in the AJAX Search API developer forum.