Comments on: Integrating Google AJAX Search API on Your Website

By: Peter Higgins

Peter Higgins — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great article Chris … Just in case you didn’t notice, in Dojo 1.2 there is a google.smd which defines all the public facing Ajax API’s google offers through Dojo’s RPC system.

var goog = new dojox.rpc.Service(dojo.moduleUrl(“dojox.rpc”,”/SMDLibrary/google.smd”);
goog.webSearch({ q:”Dojo CB1″ }).addCallback(function(response){ … });

as well as Several dojox.data DataStores to wrap each service in the dojo.data API

So as always, with Dojo you have the choice of “raw communication” with google (as you’ve outlines), a mixable RPC Service for Deferred communication, or “the dojo.data” way as options available to you.

By: Chris Barber

Chris Barber — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip! For this project, we decided to stick with Dojo 1.1.1. I should update this post after Dojo 1.2 becomes GA.

By: James Burke

James Burke — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It may also be worth using Dojo from the Google CDN:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.1.1/dojo/dojo.xd.js

By: Nkonye Oyewusi

Nkonye Oyewusi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I need to know how to make this post the searhc results to another page, using method=”post”. What I did was generate the search button on the form page and put the search code on the query page. But this does not seem to work. Any ideas?

By: Chris Barber

Chris Barber — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You could probably hack it to post back on search, but that kind of defeats the purpose. It’s Ajax search which means you can search without reloading the page. Google has another API for doing searches, but I don’t the name of it off the top of my head.

By: Nkonye Oyewusi

Nkonye Oyewusi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I will prefer to post-back on the search.