Comments on: How to embed Google Custom Search in Magento

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:24:55 +0000

Can you place the search box & button in the standard area in the header? Thanks.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:32:52 +0000

Solr for CE maybe would be too heavy solution, but there is Blast Search Lucene extension which does the job properly

By: MageD

MageD — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:59:28 +0000

Thanks branko, it is great tutorial to embed google custom search with magento

By: Cheap Electrical Items

Cheap Electrical Items — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:36:10 +0000

This is dissapointing as Google commerce search starets at £19k. I guess you get what you pay for. I would much rather see an SOLR search extension for the community edition. If anybody could point me in the right direction I would be very apreciative.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:15:17 +0000

ok, thats what I thought, pretty disappointing. I think you are much better off using the Magento search. At least with that you know all products will show up, you can taylor the results and you see images of all the items.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:18:37 +0000

@Mark: Google will use the existing pages it has indexed for your website. They offer an “On-Demand” indexing service which provides you with 50 additional urls which will be indexed solely for your search engine. If you want more urls indexed then you need to pay for them. Pricing is available here: http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115958

By: mark

mark — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:19:13 +0000

this looks great, but do the results come from only the pages google has in its index? for example, my site has over 2000 pages but google only has about 1800 of them in its index due to low link juice, etc on some pages. so now those pages will not be part of the search results. correct me if im wrong? (i hope)

By: sky

sky — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:49:07 +0000

thanks for the post, now I know how easy it is to integrate google custom search into magento.