Keith's Weblog: Comments on "Search term highlighting on my site"

by M. Bean

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:54:48 +0000

That is really slick dude. It didn't even dawn on me that this type of thing was even possible.

by Donncha O Caoimh

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:21:29 +0000

Great minds think alike!
I spent some time at the weekend working on something similar. I highlighted searches on my own site, but I never thought of highlighting Google searches! Cool idea!

Donncha.

by Keith

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:51:32 +0000

It didn't even dawn on me that this type of thing was even possible.

I got the idea from Dean Allen. I'd been meaning to try it out for a long time, and it worked pretty well. That's why I was looking for a list of search engine syntaxes yesterday. I didn't get to use any of that code from MT Ref or whatever, but it gave me an idea of how to structure mine.

So, right now this thing works with Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, AltaVista, Overture, Ask Jeeves, and AlltheWeb. As I get searches engine hits in my referrers I've been making sure they work, and adding things when they don't. I may do it for searches within my web site someday too.

by jim

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:15:37 +0000

got this at the top of my page

Notice: Undefined index: path in /home/keith/kbdcms/Modules/searchengine_module.php on line 78

when i tried your search link from Google back here.

by Keith

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:21:44 +0000

Thanks, small silly error. Fixed.

by Keith

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:21:57 +0000

Actually, I shouldn't even call it an error... it was a typo.

by

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:20:51 +0000

there's no real way to highlight that with regular expressions, since you could have an arbitrary nesting of HTML

Then you have answered your own question. That's the way Google does it and I have yet to see it cause problems in the rendering of a page. Sure it's disgusting when you look at the source code, but on the surface everything seems to be situation normal:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:74P3...+for+a+list+of+search+engine%22&hl=en