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!