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.

Project Description

Google Co-op 2.0

Google Co-op 2.0 is a complete rewrite of Google Co-op for plone 4. It was built using paster. It does not add any new content types to your site, just some additional views for ootb plone content. (for earlier versions please refer to this how to)

Install

You can install Google Co-op as part of a specific project's buildout, by having a buildout configuration such as:

[buildout]
...
eggs =
    Products.googlecoop

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_view to the url of your plone instance.

Options

In the Google Co-op control panel you can customize almost any aspect of your custom search engine

Create a Linked Custom Search Engine using a Collection

After the installation of the product a new view "Google CSE View" is available for collections. 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 the results of a topic to a Custom Search Engine.
• You can automatically generate any number of CSEs.
• 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.

Self-Certification

[X] Internationalized

[ ] Unit tests

[X] End-user documentation

[ ] Internal documentation (documentation, interfaces, etc.)

[X] Existed and maintained for at least 6 months

[X] Installs and uninstalls cleanly

[X] Code structure follows best practice