I’m interested to hear peoples preferred methods or approaches to implementing the search results from a Google Search Appliance into an existing website. More specifically how do people prefer to implement/embed the search results into their existing site and persist the surrounding website elements (menus, membership etc) around the search results.
As far as I am aware there are 3 different approaches.
Sub-domain, handle everything in the xslt – create a search.mysite.com which is completely handled by google xslt and embed surround site components in xslt.
Embed search results into existing site using an iframe – Use the existing website and just use an iframe to import results into page.
Embed results into existing site by using server side processing – This is how I have previously integrated search into a site using a combination of bespoke dev and the GSALib project.
I would be interested to hear if anyone has other suggestions, and were people have benefited or regretted using the above approaches.