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I want to create a search box that will combine search URLs and combine the results.

So if I wanted to Use Google Web Search and Google Image Search, I would use www.google.com/search?q= and www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=905&q= and then I would have:

Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=cats & https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=905&q=cats

Cats Website Link Description

Picture of a cat

(sorted by relevancy)

Is this even possible? I know that it has been done with dogpile, but all I want to do is combine a couple different Google products so I can search my documents, my images, etc.

Note: I have no experience with Javascript, PHP, Ajax, or search boxes.

Thanks, Ian.

Ian
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  • wow, well, for a lack of experience, you're jumping in the deep end. Second, it's very possible, and even easy using a little jQuery-Ajax magic on your javascript and maybe a rc call on php, but again, you're really jumping in the deep end for a first time proj – SpYk3HH Mar 19 '12 at 16:03
  • This isn't really designed for teaching people how to do things - this is more for helping you along the way when you run into specific issues. And yes - its possible. :P – Snuffleupagus Mar 19 '12 at 16:06
  • OK, thanks. I had no idea if this was an easy or a hard project. It sounded like it would be easy because you can easily make a search for just one search URL, so I thought it wouldn't be too hard with two. Now that I think of it though, getting all the results to stay inline with each other, as well as sorting them and formatting, would be pretty hard. – Ian Mar 19 '12 at 16:06

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It should be achievable with the Google Custom Search API, but you will need to learn a programming language.

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  • That's kind of what I was thinking, but I really don't need it so much that I am going to learn an entire programming language. HTML an CSS are enough. :D – Ian Mar 19 '12 at 16:15