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Your Picosearch Plan:
PicoSearch Free
Your Page Maximum:
250
Current Pages Indexed:
16 (16 docs)
Time of Last Reindex:
9:09pm EST, June 1, 2007
Searches in Statistics:
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Consider the following searches for your site based on your current account settings. If you change your account settings in the Designing section, you may want to come back here for the corresponding changes in the search box code to put on your site. For example, Partitions will appear below when you create Partitions. Advanced users may wish to play with a setting like GET/POST in the Configure Results option (GET and POST are the two choices in http for calling PicoSearch. POST hides the long search urls, but people usually prefer GET because it works better with back buttons).
Click the "tell me how" links to learn how it's done (you may need to use the HTML mode of some editors, or the Macro Script Editor of Word 2000, etc.) The box searches use a standard HTML form tag, so if your system gives you an trouble with this you can always try the simple text link to start your search (for example, some asp installations may limit you to one form per page.)
These example search boxes are live searches on your account for you to try, and they will not affect your query histogram so long as you use them just from this page. You can add as many different search boxes, links, or even separate accounts on as many of your web pages as you like, so have fun! |
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Options
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Query Box:
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Text Link:
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Button Link:
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| The Options Box is the searching standard for convenient Boolean querying (Any/All/Exact) and more. Your visitors will get to use it in your search results pages after their first search, so you don't necessarily have to offer it on your own web pages, but you may wish to. The first option to 'Find ANY word' is the default for PicoSearch. |
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Cut and paste the following HTML code into your web page editor wherever you want the options box to appear. It must appear between the begin <body> and end </body> tags of the web page's body to be visible.
Problems? TIP#1: if you see < and > in the cut-and-paste code, those are supposed to be < and > respectively. Some browsers don't get it right, so just replace them with < and > so the code will function. TIP#2: if your search box doesn't bring up PicoSearch on your page, check whether you have an open <form...> that needs to have closure before the PicoSearch cut-and-paste code. Close it by adding </form> before PicoSearch's code. TIP#3: <form...> tags can make an extra blank line in browsers, so we include style="margin:0;" in our code. |
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The code above is for your current choices from your account manager's Pico Language settings. For guidelines and tips on varying the layout, see the discussion below under the plain Query Box cut-and-paste instructions. Just be careful when you tinker that you do not leave out FORM and INPUT tags which are critical to the search box's operation. And remember, as a Free account holder, by license agreement you are not allowed to change or omit the PicoSearch logo, and it must link to our main web site.
If the Free account limitations become a problem, please consider upgrading to a Professional or Premium account for complete freedom and design control. We do check on accounts periodically - primarily for grossly offensive content associations which are not allowed for the PicoSearch service - so those deployments which are in clear violations of agreements will be subject to terminations. We try to be reasonable and we're really not nosy - for further details see the FAQ section on this topic. |
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Additional Variations: You can put starter words in the search box, which can then vanish as soon as the user puts the cursor there. For example, "type here to search", and then it clears when they type. This is done by setting the value attribute plus an onFocus attribute for the query box:
<input type="text" name="query" value="enter search terms here" size="18" onfocus="if (this.defaultValue==this.value) this.value='';">
For a working example of this, see below in the Query Box example of more customizing. |
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| The Query Box is the basic full-service method for getting your visitors to search your web site. It is also the most customizable. |
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Cut and paste the following HTML code into your web page editor wherever you want the plain query box to appear. It must appear between the begin <BODY> and end </BODY> tags of the web page's body to be visible.
Problems? TIP#1: if you see < and > in the cut-and-paste code, those are supposed to be < and > respectively. Some browsers don't get it right, so just replace them with < and > so the code will function. TIP#2: if your search box doesn't bring up PicoSearch on your page, check whether you have an open <form...> that needs to have closure before the PicoSearch cut-and-paste code. Close it by adding </form> before PicoSearch's code. TIP#3: <form...> tags can make an extra blank line in browsers, so we include style="margin:0;" in our code. |
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The code above is for your current choices from your account manager's Pico Language settings. Variations are possible, so you can experiment. In the example above, you could also have set BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR='#000000' just in the first table to make a grey box around the whole set of parts. You could change the BGCOLOR=WHITE attribute to set the search box onto another background color (say a blue), and then maybe set the BORDER=1 just for the IMG image. The box's SIZE="20" can be made smaller or larger, and the button's SUBMIT attribute VALUE="Search" can say something different, like "Search Our Site!", "Find", or "Go!". You can even include starter text for the user in the button's TEXT attribute VALUE="", like "enter search terms here". This text can also clear automatically with the onFocus attribute:
<input type="text" name="query" value="enter search terms here" size="18" onfocus="if (this.defaultValue==this.value) this.value='';">
The following box example shows these possibilities: |
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Just be careful when you tinker that you do not leave out FORM and INPUT tags which are critical to the search box's operation. And remember, as a Free account holder, by license agreement you are not allowed to change or omit the PicoSearch logo, and it must link to our main web site.
If the Free account limitations become a problem, please consider upgrading to a Professional or Premium account for complete freedom and design control. We do check on accounts periodically - primarily for grossly offensive content associations which are not allowed for the PicoSearch service - so those deployments which are in clear violations of agreements will be subject to terminations. We try to be reasonable and we're really not nosy - for further details see the FAQ section on this topic. |
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| The Text Link is the simplest code and the most space-efficient way to start up your search engine. It needs to be centrally displayed so your visitors won't overlook it. |
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Cut and paste the following HTML code into your web page editor wherever you want a text link to appear. It must appear between the begin <BODY> and end </BODY> tags of the web page's body to be visible.
Problems? TIP#1: if you see < and > in the cut-and-paste code, those are supposed to be < and > respectively. Some browsers don't get it right, so just replace them with < and > so the code will function. |
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It also might be a good idea to say specifically "search this site", or set the font FACE, COLOR, and SIZE differently to stand out, so feel free to experiment.
The simplest text links do not pass a query, so they use the One-Click Entrance to your search engine. You can set options for your One-Click Entrance in your Account Manager.
For ways to initialize a search directly from a link, try this FAQ. |
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| The Button Link is a quick, easy, and eye-catching way to get your users to try your search engine. It's less than 2k. |
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Cut and paste the following HTML code into your web page editor wherever you want the quiet button to appear. It must appear between the begin <BODY> and end </BODY> tags of the web page's body to be visible.
Problems? TIP#1: if you see < and > in the cut-and-paste code, those are supposed to be < and > respectively. Some browsers don't get it right, so just replace them with < and > so the code will function. |
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The simplest Button links do not pass a query, so they use the One-Click Entrance to your search engine. You can set options for your One-Click Entrance in your Account Manager.
For ways to initialize a search directly from a link, try this FAQ. |
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