Learn how to add a Google search box to any website.

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Adding Google Search to Your Website

Wouldn’t it be great to have a Google search box on your own website—so that your visitors can either search the Web from your site, or use Google search technology to search your site? Not surprisingly, Google makes it easy to add a search box to your site—Google offers several ways to add a Google search box, and they’re all free.

Understanding Google Custom Search

Lots of webmasters add Google search boxes to their sites, because Google makes it easy to do so. Google’s main program is called Google Custom Search, and it’s free—as long as you don’t mind displaying ads on your search results pages.

You can add a Custom Search box to your own website ...

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