Extension of the Week: Google Search

The Extension I’m focusing on this week is Google Search. Google Search allows you to display results of a keyword search within a MindTouch Deki page broken down into the following categories: Web, Local, Image, Video, News, Blog, and Book.

To get started install the Google extension.

Once that is installed we can invoke the extension through the MindTouch Deki Extension dialog. To do this click Edit on the page that you want the extension to be on and then click the Extension Icon in the editor that looks like this:

This will open up the Extension Dialog where you can scroll down and select Google as an option and then select google.search.

Now you can specify the search term(s) that you want to search for on Google along with specifying if you want to only return a certain set of results like Blogs, Books, News. You can select if you want the result to be tabbed and if you want to publish or subscribe to any channels.

For this example we are going to search for MindTouch and keep the defaults for options. Once you type in mindtouch you can click Insert Extension and the following syntax will be shown on the page:

{{ google.Search{search: "mindtouch"} }}

This will return the following:

Adding google.search to your Deki pages will add contextual relevance search results for the content and add more interactivity for the visitors. The method of inserting the google.search extension using the extension dialog is available for all extensions in MindTouch and is an easy way for your users to create dynamic pages.

If you have any questions about this extension please leave a comment or contact us.