Ok to use your own form with Adsense for Search??

check out http://www.ebaumsworld.com/index2.shtml

Put something in the search box, and you get Google results. (and a popop). Is it a violation to use your own form with a Google result? ?? (I assumed it wasn't)

 

Anyone ????

 

found another: http://www.fliertalk.com/forum/

Any thoughts on this?

 

I dont mean to be a bump-er, but I'm still curious about this. It seems blatantly in violation of TOS, yet I see reputable sites doing it. Any advice appreciated..

 

Sagewing - I've been curious too--surprised you've had no takers on this one yet. My guess would be that the first one is a violation, since they removed the logo--but I have seen plenty of sites do that.

The second one I'm not so sure about, since it looks like they may have just added the code directly into the search function, and included the logo...

But that's just my guess.

Toonces51

 

Interesting. On that second site (flyertalk) that logo wasn't there until a few days ago!

The first one really seems like a violation because they aren't using anything like the form Google provides. It seems like they just pointed their own form at Google.

I do like the idea of hiding the form in a layer, like flyertalk did. I wonder if that's OK. I think I can really get some good use out of Adsense for search, but man that form is hard on the eyes!

 

i dont think theres anything wrong with this,

                    <td> <INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=15 maxlength=255 value=""style="background-color: #384b61; border-color: #000033; color: #cccccc;"> 
                      <INPUT name=search type=image value=Search src="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/searchbutton2.gif" alt=Search align="top" width=49 height=17 vspace=3 border=0> 
                      <INPUT type=hidden name=cof VALUE="S:http://ebaumsworld.com;GL:2;VLC:#99ccff;AH:center;BGC:#384b61;LH:46;LC:#99ccff;L:http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/tmenumain.gif;ALC:#99ccff;LW:605;T:#cccccc;AWFID:189ca4c493cc1a12; "> 
                      <input type=hidden name=domains value="www.ebaumsworld.com"> 
                      <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value="www.ebaumsworld.com"></td>
                  </tr>

Code (markup):

heres one from my site

<!-- Search Google -->
<center>
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="_top">
<table bgcolor="#edf6fd">
<tr><td nowrap="nowrap" valign="top" align="left" height="32">
<a href="http://www.google.com/">
<img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif" border="0" alt="Google" align="middle"></img></a>
<input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value=""></input>
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="channel" value="xxxyyyyyy"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>



<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#9A2C06;GL:1;DIV:#33FFFF;VLC:D03500;AH:center;BGC:99CCFF;LBGC:CCE5F9;ALC:440066;LC:440066;T:336699;GFNT:223472;GIMP:223472;FORID:1;"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input>
</td></tr></table>
</form>
</center>
<!-- Search Google -->

Code (markup):

th one from ebaumsworld is not adsense