Baidu Search

[Discourse]

	Summary	Baidu Search is specific for Chinese sites whose users cannot use the usual Google search.
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-baidu-search
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Features

After installing and activating the component remember also to update the js.search.search_google and js.search.or_search_google strings (from /admin/customize/site_texts) by replacing ‘Google’ with ‘Baidu’ or ‘百度’.

Parameters references

Since the documentation in English relating to the parameters used by Baidu is scarce, I leave here the two valid references I found on the net

• https://chineseseoshifu.com/blog/complete-list-of-baidu-search-url-parameters.html

• https://www.programmersought.com/article/1062804835/

Credits

Thanks to @david for finding the workaround to make the search work on a specific site even without using the Q6 parameter which doesn’t work properly with the search terms!

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Last edited by @JammyDodger 2024-06-11T08:19:47Z

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[Robert_Digi-Key (Robert Fay)]

Do you know if this will component will be updated or if it will just need to be removed prior to the June deadline?

[Arkshine]

I think it would be reasonable to make a Feature request. It seems a good idea for the admin/user to set up their preferred search engine.

Fixing the TC would require a plugin outlet. If the team is okay with it, I can make a PR to add one.

[Arkshine]

There is actually an existing plugin outlet introduced recently.
I made a PR:

DEV: Use `google-search` plugin outlet