Chapter 16

Building a Mobile Search Page

In This Chapter

arrow Finding and using search engine utility software

arrow Defining search page parameters

arrow Defining parameters for results pages

arrow Creating a Google Custom Search for your website

arrow Adding a Google Map API to your site

Although menus and hyperlinks are great tools for helping your mobile users find and navigate your websites, at some point sites get much too big and contain far too much data to rely on simple navigation and interactivity mechanisms. Besides, a simple one- or few-word menu entry doesn't always adequately describe the contents of a page. A page describing, say, a laser surgery procedure, for example, could include all kinds of terms that are not implied in a menu entry or a hyperlink text string.

Perhaps more than other computer users, mobile users tend to be in hurry. Providing them ways to find information on your mobile site as quickly as possible will make the site more successful and therefore more popular. Without question, ...

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