Why does the script make a call to search.digitalpoint.com? I'm just trying to better understand how the script works. And is there some way I can work around that? It must create a burden on your server. If you share the scripts with me, I can just put them on my server. You can see my test installation here: http://www.fordf150.net/search/results.php?q=buzz (URL subject to change)
The main purpose of the search engine script was to take the programming complexity out of the Google API. Using the Google API directly usually requires recompiling your web server to support 3rd party SOAP/XML extensions for example, so unless you own your own web server, most people can't use it. So we set up search.digitalpoint.com to do the "heavy lifting" part for people. What it does is take your request, form it into a SOAP/XML request and get the results for you from Google, then pass the results back as a nicely formatted PHP array. To see how it works, go to the following URL in your browser: http://search.digitalpoint.com/?q=buzz&key=GOOGLE_KEY&site=www.fordf150.net&start=0 (replace GOOGLE_KEY with your Google API key) It will look like a bunch of junk, but view the source... it's a nice little PHP array, which is much easier to work with. We do *not* track queries, log them or anything else. The system is setup solely to make it easy to integrate for non-programmers (or people that can't recompile their web server). If you *are* able to do that, you might want to check our the Google API developer kit, which is free to download here. Hopefully that helps somewhat? - Shawn