Basically I have a website. I have a properly setup sitemap so I assume Google knows about all of my pages. And I've seen on some sites, the search form leads to a page with the shell of the original site but the results are clearly provided by Google. Similar to codinghorror.com's search, however his results aren't shown within his website's layout.
Any idea what I'm talking about or how to achieve this?
Like this
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:20em;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td>
<input type="text" name="q" size="25"
maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" style="font-size:75%">
<input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"
value="askdavetaylor.com" checked /> only search Ask Dave Taylor<br />
</td></tr></table>
</div>
</form>
For displaying the results in a separate frame, you have this site as an example.
That would be something along the lines of:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function showFrame () {
var e = document.getElementById("if1");
e.style.visibility = "visible" ;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p> </p>
<p>
<span id="spSearch" onclick="showFrame()">Search</span>
</p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe name="I1" id="if1" width="100%" height="254" style="visibility:hidden" src="http://www.google.co.uk">
Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.
</iframe></p>
</body>
</html>
An easy way to have a customized google search is to use adsense for search, it allows you to :
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
^ Perhaps you're looking for Google Custom Search Engine
As another answerer listed, I beleieve Custom Search is what you are looking for.
Just wanted to provide additional info. Google also has Site Search, but you need to pay for it.
Take a look at Google Webmaster tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/
In particular: http://www.google.com/sitesearch/
For a free solution based on the main Google index using a site: query and only a little control of the look and feel, try Google Custom Search Engine.
For a few hundred dollars, with a more comprehensive and up-to-date index of your site, and complete control of the look-and-feel, try Google Site Search.
For enterprises which need complete control of all aspects of the index and the search experience, and need anything from thousands to millions of items in the index, try the Google Search Appliance.