I want to add Google Custom Search Engine to my forum. Could you please suggest, where and how to add the Custom Search Engine Code to discourse.

Discourse already comes with a pretty powerful search feature. Why would you want to add Google custom search engine?

Yeah have to agree, Discourse search works well. I’ve never found a Google custom search implementation that worked well. Even if wanting ad revenue from it I think it would be a negative Impact overall.

I believe there is nothing wrong in trying it out and see the revenue impact. If things wont work, we can switch back anytime. But, how to implement is what I wanted to figure out. Could someone help me here.

I can’t imagine it would be easy to override the built in search functionality of Discourse. It’s tightly knit into the very foundation of the Discourse app and works at the database level. Google custom search as far as I’m aware will just build an index of the static site content, it would be a l…

I’m not particularly familiar with Google Custom Search, but my understanding is that it would only be able to search public topics. Assuming that’s true, that means your users won’t be able to search their PMs, topics in non-public categories, tags/users/groups (we block indexing for those pages), …

[image] jomaxro: I’m not particularly familiar with Google Custom Search, but my understanding is that it would only be able to search public topics. I’m fairly sure that it only includes pages that are indexed by G also. Which is often only a small % for UGC.

It is not necessary nor a good idea to replace the internal discourse search functionality. However, there is nothing wrong with adding an additional search capability, Google or otherwise. This is best done with a plugin and its own route / page. My advice @KranthiKiranGude is to leave the disco…

@neounix : I am not trying to override the existing search functionality of discourse. I am just trying to add a widget or a plugin, I would be great, if some could suggest how to add a custom HTML component like Google Custom Search Engine to all the pages. I would keep the existing search functiona…

Hi @KranthiKiranGude Based on prior experience implementing GCSE on a forum application, I suggest two plugins: Theme component for the GCSE search bar. You can then place these GCSE search bars where ever you want on your site. This is fairly simple to do. Plugin to create a Discourse page…

How to add Google Custom Search Engine to Discourse

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hawm (Hawm) July 8, 2020, 4:52pm 6

You may need to build a theme component to replace/modify the default search compoment or widget with what your want.

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