Comments on: SharePoint Tricks: Adding Google Search To Search Scopes

By: David Singh

David Singh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:38:53 +0000

Tombo, thanks for the quick response as I am new to this. Followed your suggestions and it worked. Thanks Again!

By: Tombo

Tombo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:34:20 +0000

You need to add your aspx file to the SharePoint farm as an application page. Copy it to next directory: c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\template\layouts\
Now you can access it from: http://server/_layouts/yourpage.aspx

Cheers
Tom

By: David Singh

David Singh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:10:12 +0000

Ok I create an aspx page and added your code, I keep getting an error:
. Code blocks are not allowed in this file. Do you know why that is?

By: Tombo

Tombo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:47:08 +0000

No problem over here.

Tom

By: James Wood

James Wood — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:50:45 +0000

I couldn’t get this to work on MOSS 2007 under 64 bit Windows 2008 Server R2. All it would do is display the text of the page as if ASPX wasn’t registered on the server, but IIS 7.5 should handle that no problem and the ASP.NET features are installed. Anyone got it working?

By: dsy

dsy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:55:32 +0000

Hello
Thanks for this article.

Where to put the ASPX file: “c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\”

What to write into the ASPX file:

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:16:56 +0000

Tombo> sorry for the hostility. Your site was the only one that even remotely discussed the process. After a log Googling session, I finally came across your site, then your instructions were difficult to follow and I was very frustrated…

Thank you for updating the site and providing the code. It worked perfectly, with one minor alteration: There’s no ‘/’ after ‘search’ in the Google url. It should be: http://www.google.com/search?q=“+Request

Thanks again and sorry for the emotive…

By: Tombo

Tombo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:09:27 +0000

For the people still looking for the full code in searchgoogle.aspx. Here it is:

< %@Page Language="C#"%>
< % Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com/search/?q="+Request["k"],true); %>

Anonymous> Why is your message so hostile? From time to time I try to guide you guys to solutions. I’m not a step-by-step handbook. I still do this in my spare time.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:00:30 +0000

Well, instead of describing how easy it is, how about some detailed instructions, eg:
1. Make a copy of ..searchresults.aspx. Call it googleresults.aspx
2. Open googleresults.aspx in notepad and replace its contents with the following javascript block:…
3. Create a new search scope and point it to googleresults.aspx

Telling everyone how easy it is to do, does nothing more than massage your own ego…

By: ScriptKittie

ScriptKittie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:56:39 +0000

^_^!! Thank you!!! Yeah- I couldn’t publish it– but my intratnet is looking really spiffy!! <3 I’ll keep checking back!