Redirect to google

Question

Hi, I just want to redirect the user to google search when he type some thing in text box and then submit, for that i coded:

<script type="text/javascript">
function gotosearch(){
var search = document.getElementById('q').value;
window.location = "http://www.google.com.pk/#hl=en&amp;source=hp&amp;biw=1024&amp;bih=604&amp;q="+search+"&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=&amp;fp=1";
return true;
}
</script>

But window.location does not redirect to google page

but I failed...

Answer 1

Are you aware that you have two o's in gootosearch? You could be calling the function as gotosearch ;)

Answer 2

http://www.google.com.pk/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=test

try that link

Answer 3

• You need to format the search string to be URL-compatible (e.g. replace ' ' with '+' and replace other reserved characters with '%xx' hex values)
• There needs to be a ? in the URL before the parameter list. The # character means to go to an anchor (i.e. <a name="foo"></a>) on the page.