Widgets Of Value: Google Daily News Search Widget

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Google Daily News Search Widget

Get the benefit of the worlds largest search engine with results in your blog. Your user never has to leave your page! This result spans the width of where the code is placed so a html sidebar is recommended.

Todays latest news will appear as default. Or your user can search.

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You can change our search criteria in the code below world news to whatever topic you like!
Scroll to the bottom and replace the words world news with what ever you like
copy and paste this code:

<script src="//www.google.com/jsapi?key=AIzaSyA5m1Nc8ws2BbmPRwKu5gFradvD_hgq6G0" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    /*
    *  How to search by date (versus relevence)
    */
    
    google.load('search', '1');
    
    function OnLoad() {
      // Create a search control
      var searchControl = new google.search.SearchControl();
    
      // Create a NewsSearcher
      var newsSearch = new google.search.NewsSearch();
      var extendedArgs = google.search.Search.RESTRICT_EXTENDED_ARGS;
    
      // Search by date (instead of relevence)
      newsSearch.setRestriction(extendedArgs, {'scoring':'d'});
    
      // Add the searcher to the SearchControl
      searchControl.addSearcher(newsSearch);
    
      // tell the searcher to draw itself and tell it where to attach
      searchControl.draw(document.getElementById("content"));
    
      // A good sport
      searchControl.execute('world news');
    }
    
    google.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad);
    </script>
  </head>
  <body style="font-family: Arial;border: 0 none;">
    <div id="content">
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