Is the Google tool search functionality replaced by "Site Search"?

[etcbbu]

I know that years ago, within WB projects, I remember being able to call a "Google Search" tool that I could place on a page that'd allow end-user to get results there from that same domain / same .WBS project, when I would publish a website up with all of the pages within my .WBS file onto a given domain/web-space.

Has the "Site Search" Tool replaced this?

Can this be used without any sort of MySQL database, or Login, etc etc? I'm reading through this right now: https://wysiwygwebbuilder.com/sitesearch.html Just wanted to ask the following question to ensure I'm thinking about it correctly:

For instance, if I just have a given project for a historical society, and publish to the domain https://etcbbuhistoricalsociety.com from a WBS project-file, does this "Site Search" Tool allow folks to search the various pages that I would create, there, in that same .WBS overall project-file that would be pages over in the "Site Manager" toolbar on the right side of the screen, all published as standard .php pages? And, would you have the same flexibility with respect to maintaining the visual design of the website and its pages / make-up / Master Frame / mobile responsiveness breakpoints (can still do all the breakpoints, etc, I typically use 1366, 1024, 768, and 320) ?

These pages' content are mostly going to be

- text
- images
- videos that will be either uploaded to Rumble or YouTube, and embedded on these various .php pages like I'm mentioning above

Am I thinking about this correctly? Would the "Site Search" Tool work off of, for example, the text on those pages whenever end-user enters search strings that match body text of these pages?

Furthermore, I assume one could also use Form controls / Hyperlink URLs on these pages if we wanted to give users the ability to link to some of these archives by, for example, dates, or certain months or calendar years? Maybe a drop-down box of "January 1973", "February 1973", "March 1973" (each linking to its own .php page I will have then created there within my .WBS project-file, respectively, for each one), which would then link to a page that I could define, etc. etc? All falling within this "Site Search" Tool's grasp?

Thanks for any insights anyone can offer. I love WYSIWYG Web Builder~

—etcbbu

[Pablo]

Site Search is not a replacement for Google Search. It's a different type of search tool.
You can read more about it here:
https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/sitesearch.html

There is also a dedicated "Google Search" extensions:
https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/googlesearch.html

or else
https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/duckduckgosearch.html

[etcbbu]

I mean, Site Search sounds like it works great, I have no great affinity for its having to be Google or DuckDuckGo that I would use for this project. Should Site Search tool work ok with things like Breakpoints / Master Frame (needing Content placeholders) and things like that, that I'd have in place around the site or all of these potential pages and not run up with any errors or have to restructure whole pages of the website if I were to use Site Search?

[alan_sh]

The site search is for your customers to use to search for specific items (phrases) within your published web site. As an example of what I mean, have a look at penninescouts.org.uk and put in "17th" into the search box (top right) and click on 'Search'. It should come up with 3 pages where the phrase "17th" is mentioned.

If you want to try something similar, I've linked a free template here viewtopic.php?t=93336 which has a search capability built in.

Does that help?

Alan

[Pablo]

Should Site Search tool work ok with things like Breakpoints / Master Frame (needing Content placeholders) and things like that

You do not have restructure your pages, site search should work with breakpoints and master frames.