Tonight’s article is one based on a little trick I pulled of last year at one of my customer’s Intranet. As it turns out, there seems to be quite some people using Google Search (Live Search anyone?)
So how do we add this search scope? The trick lies in a custom page for the search scope. When creating a search scope in your site collection settings, you’re allowed to enter a custom search page.

This custom search page simply has to redirect to the google query webpage: eg.http://www.google.com/search?q=ENTER+A+WORD. Don’t forget to replace the ENTER+A+WORD content of the q variable with the k variable you find in the query string of the custom page. This is whare all the magic lies, you see. So in the end, we’re basicly rerouting the query from SharePoint to Google. Pretty simple, but very effective!

Hope you guys liked the trick. See you next time!

No no, no april’s fool joke. I am actually updating my blog.

I’ve been extremly busy last couple of weeks, as some of you may already know. But with the release of the new WordPress past weekend, I found myself upgrading the blog and obliged to baptize the new system with a couple of posts. You’ll see the other one published later tonight.

Talking about the new WordPress, I recommend everyone to check it out. The developers made some great advancements in the admin panel. So I’m quite pleased to run the new version. It’s a real breath of fresh air.
Also, fitting right into my current spirit of time of change, I’ve upgraded my 5 year old Windows XP rigg to a new Vista-based quad core system. And I have to say… blazing fast! Even Crysis runs like a charm on very high settings. For those of you who have never played Crysis: check out the demo! It’s awesome, I’ll surely be picking up a copy pretty soon. When downloading the demo, don’t let the massive 1.8 GB download scare you of! It’s worth it. Man, where’s the time when games fit on a small floppy disk… good stuff! My last 2 systems didn’t even have such a drive anymore.

Anyway… Have a nice read!

PS: I have started to fix some of the layout bugs on IE7. IE 8 still gives problems though.