Google Co-op

Google Coop for Plone makes it easy for you to integrate a Google Co-op Custom Search engine in your plone site.

Current release

No stable release available yet.

Project Description

Install

Install the Product in Site-Setup Add/Remove Products. Enter your Custom Search Engine's unique identifier in the googlecoop configuration. (You find the identifier in the code section in the control panel of your searchengine)

You can access the search page of your search engine by adding /googlecoop to the url of your plone instance.

Exporting Plone links to Google co-op

If you have lots of Links in your site you want to add to your searchengine you can export them by adding /coop-lable.xml to the url of the folder in which the links are located. This produces an Annotation file with your plone subjects as labels. You may want to edit that file before uploading it to google. (In the Advanced section in the control panel of your searchengine)

You may also produce a context file for your CSE. If you use your sites keywords as labels for the CSE this contextfile will include the keywords you assigned to your google co-op tool as facets and labels. This comes in handy if you want to include more than 16 refinements in your stored CSE.

Building A Linked Custom Search Engine with Tasty Bookmarks

In a Linked CSE the specification of the search engine is hosted on your website. Google retrieves the CSE specification from your website when your user searches in the CSE. This has several very important benefits:

  • You can easily convert your Tasty Links to a Custom Search Engine.
  • You can automatically generate any number of CSEs, each tuned to the particular page (Bookmark Folder) or as a response to a users query (Tasty view).
  • You can easily update your Linked CSE definitions without pushing data to Google.
  • There are no global, per user annotation limits.

You can now exploit the full power of your ideas to dynamically generate CSEs. This makes it easier to share annotations between CSEs.

Tasty Bookmarks generates two files for you:

  • tasty-cseref: The CSE specification
  • tasty-annotations: The Google Annotations (i.e. the sites you want to search)

This search engine will limit the sites to search to your current context, i.e. to the Bookmark Folder you are in and the keywords you filtered by.

Caveats

  • You must not add links in the form http://plone.org the slash (/) at the end of the URL is mandantory so the link must be http://plone.org/.
  • Avoid linking to pages, rather link to the directory i.e ommit the usual suspects index.html, index.php, home.html, default.asp etc. Do not link to http://www.unep.org/default.asp but to http://www.unep.org/ otherwise the annotation file will resrict your searches to just that page.
  • You still have to create a (stored) CSE because you need the Identifier.

 

The product was designed with ArgoUML and ArchgenXML.

You may see it in action on IW:LEARN