Title: Search engine too broad
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search engine too broad

 *  [bmc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmc/)
 * (@bmc)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/)
 * Hi, the search engine is fine; it really finds anything, but it shows the entire
   page, not yet a link and excerpts of the page/pages where there’s the searched
   word. How to achieve this effect? TY.

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 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-74921)
 * [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/06/07/advanced-contextual-search-for-wordpress/](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/06/07/advanced-contextual-search-for-wordpress/)
 *  1539
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-74930)
 * Personally, I’ve taken a liking to the google search that can be implemented 
   into your website to search the site.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-74933)
 * yeah, but that needs ur site doing exceeding well in google.
    and that wont work
   on recent posts (a day old for example).
 *  Thread Starter [bmc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmc/)
 * (@bmc)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-74978)
 * the google imp needs a google api, or not? It is java stuff, yes?
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-75424)
 * atomz.com site search is free for sites with less than 500 pages. it’s very customizable,
   too — you can exclude pages, directories, file types; you can index when you 
   want and see the results; you can customize the search results page quite a bit!
   yes it’s still hosted by atomz, but unlike google there’s only one small atomz
   link, and you have much more control over the page template. for an example, 
   visit [http://orangepolitics.com](http://orangepolitics.com/)
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-75425)
 * on the other hand, it would be cool if there was a plugin to use the google api…
   like this one for phpwebsite:
    [http://phpgirl.com/index.php?module=downloads&DMOP=view&ID=34](http://phpgirl.com/index.php?module=downloads&DMOP=view&ID=34)
   see it in use here: [http://phpgirl.com/index.php?module=google&GOP=main&MMN_position=8:8](http://phpgirl.com/index.php?module=google&GOP=main&MMN_position=8:8)
   of course you need a developer token from google to run this; not sure what’s
   involved to get one
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-75426)
 * Now we just need to mount that on our blogs in a CSS frameset 🙂
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-75427)
 * [@wairoanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wairoanz/):
    I am a bit cynical
   when it comes to google and adsense. I would not recomemnd to put a actual adsense
   coded search URI coz google would eb checking for referral URIs and might not
   like the idea of you using a search result as a normal URI. I myself removed 
   a similar URI in the post above u! Just my 2 cents 🙂
 *  [wairoanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wairoanz/)
 * (@wairoanz)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-75428)
 * [@sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
    You are right… from
   the Google TOS…
 * > All search queries must originate from individual human end users inputting
   > data directly into a Search Box on Your Site(s).
 * So I’ll remove the link too.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-too-broad/#post-75429)
 * Damn, I think like google sometimes…
    How can that chap try to rob me out of 
   the precious dollars… hmm… they would have a long long long list!

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