Help:External searches
From PLN
The PALINET Leadership Network home page provides two specialized external searches:
- A Google Custom Search Engine box that searches a group of resources identified as likely to be useful to PLN users.
- A Worldcat.org search box to find books and other resources in Worldcat.org.
In some cases, it might be reasonable to include a special external search within a page. The rest of this page describes that possibility:
It is possible to create external searches of a topic using key words using a template.
For example, this is something that would work for Google:
<span style="border: 1px solid #CCD5DB;">[[Image:GoogleIcon.PNG]] [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q={{{1|Wiki}}}&btnG=Search&meta= {{{1|Google}}}]</span>
==Usage==
Allows to establish a link to a search query at the Google search engine:
<div style="display:table; width:auto;"><pre>
{{Google|Term1+Term2+Term3}}
</pre></div>
[[Category:Template|Google]]
</noinclude>
The usage is simple. {{Google|firstTerm+Second+etc}}
It is also possible to do phrases by using %22Term1+Term2+etc%22
- External searches are useful where an article requires certain keywords to make an effective search.
- For the editor it allows quick and painless web searches.
Other applications of the template include searching Forums.
Note: Wikipedia has an interwiki prefix with a similar affect, so you can link to google results with [[Google:firstTerm+Second+etc]], although templates are still useful for linking other search engines.
External reference to template example in use at ClickWiki.info
