17 Support questions or comments

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  9 months ago
  Matheus26

  Do you plan to add more features such as configuring search with safe search filters and dark mode, for example?
  
  Will you add a country filter, the ability to search on a specific site using 'site:' syntax, the ability to specify the search date, etc., similar to Google's capabilities?
  
  Do you intend to include image/video and news pages as well?
  
  I really liked the script, but Google's API is quite limited. I would like to see it done with Bing's API or Brave Search (which is good and more affordable).
  
  I really liked the layout and the idea itself. I really want to create a Brazilian search engine, but without the image/video and news parts, it's hard to compete in the market.
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  9 months ago
  clifftky Author

  Hi there, thanks for your message and the insights/feedback! Appreciate it.
  
  I chose to use Google’s Programmable Search Engine (PSE) over Bing, Brave and others mainly because it provides the structured data behind every search result item and I rely on these structured data to display the search results the way you see in this script.
  
  Also, if you use Google’s PSE Javascript API, your users can perform unlimited searches for free on the entire web. The only downside is that Google may inject ads through its Javascript and you have little or no control over it.
  
  I did not choose Google’s JSON API option (which is more flexible for developers) because it’s expensive ($5 for every 1000 queries) and if you opt to search the entire web, you can only search up to 10,000 queries per day, even if you are willing to pay for all the queries. They clearly do not want anyone to create a commercial search engine that competes with theirs using their very own product. So, this option doesn’t scale beyond 10,000 searches a day.
  
  Do I plan to add more features to this script?
  
  I can’t say that there’s a solid plan in place right now but I’m collecting feedback and considering overall feasibility/timeline. In the meantime, to answer some of your queries related to additional customisability, I’ve appended information below.
  
  Google’s PSE offers an admin panel which allows you to control the engine settings from the backend. This means your users cannot turn on/off these settings from the search engine user interface that the script offers. Instead, you need to do it from Google’s control panel. Below are some things you can control without writing any code:
  
  1) Safe search option (turn on or off)
  
  2) Add sites to search, add sites to exclude and/or search the entire web. You can use a combination of these. For example, you can ask the engine to return results from the entire web but exclude results from certain sites.
  
  3) Image search (turn on or off)
  
  4) Set up “refinement” labels. For example, if you want to create a video search, you can set up something like a category filter (they call it a “refinement” label) and tag [Youtube.com](http://Youtube.com). When users search for a keyword and subsequently click on this label, only Youtube results will be displayed. You can even tag more video sites like vimeo.com, [dailymotion.com](http://dailymotion.com) etc.
  
  Disclaimer : If you do make changes to any of these settings from Google’s control panel, additional elements may appear on the search engine user interface. For example, if you add refinement labels, Google will show tab labels in the user interface via the Javascript API. You may need to make minor adjustments to the tab colors/alignment etc to suit the overall theme of your website.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  Thanks
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  9 months ago
  clifftky Author

  Oh and also... "site:" query already works by default but there are no date filters.

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  10 months ago
  pinakinwebservices Purchased

  Your trending topics not working
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  10 months ago
  clifftky Author

  Hi there, this feature depends on your web browser's timezone information matching with Google's trend RSS.
  Would you mind providing some information based on the steps below:
  1) Open a browser and get into the browser dev tools by pressing ctrl+shift+I (Windows) OR command+option+I (Mac).
  2) Switch to the "console" tab
  3) Paste this line in and press enter => Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone;
  4) Send me the value that you see after you hit enter.
  
  From here, I will see what can be done.
  
  Thanks
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  10 months ago
  pinakinwebservices Purchased

  I don't understand
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  10 months ago
  clifftky Author

  First, the explanation: the script attempts to detect your location using information from your browser. If the information provided by the browser matches a location stored in the script, the script will try to retrieve the trending topics from Google Trends. Otherwise, it will say there's no trending topics available.
  
  What I need : To understand what location information your browser is showing. I will then check and add the location into the script, if it is not already there.
  
  Here's how you can get the information : https://ibb.co/Yj2mJBq
  
  Thanks

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  11 months ago
  wand

  Hello, first of all, such an awesome script you got here, with a great price too!
  
  1- As it's advertised as "content discovery"; Can it be installed multiple times (for different custom engine niches) without hitting the resources too hard on a low-end VPS hosting
  
  2- the second and most important question to me: Would you help me getting everything inverted (Right to left) for RTL languages after I buy it? and no need for multilingual here, I only need one language sitewide.
  
  Thanks
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  11 months ago
  clifftky Author

  Hello Wand, thanks for your interest in the script, and for reaching out. To answer your queries:
  
  1) The content of the engine is powered directly by Google Programmable Search Engine. This means that from their control panel, you can choose which sites the search results will come from. The search operations are performed on Google's servers. So the resource usage on your VPS should not be too taxing.
  
  2) Apologies on this. As much as I hate to disappoint you, I can only update the RTL styles in future releases.
  
  Thanks
  
  

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  Dec 23, 2023
  asac1995

  Why does the search only go to page 5?
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  Dec 23, 2023
  clifftky Author

  Yes, that's right. Google offers a total of 100 results, 20 per page.
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  Dec 27, 2023
  asac1995

  Is it possible to edit so that the first 5 results are based on date (most recent) and the rest based on relevance?
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  Dec 28, 2023
  clifftky Author

  Apologies, this would not be possible. However, you can change (all) the results to be based on date instead of relevance (by default), from Google's control panel.

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  Dec 22, 2023
  sakima

  Can I display my own information as a sponsored ad?
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  Dec 22, 2023
  clifftky Author

  You can use the left or right sidebar and replace the trending or related queries with your ads. The design is such that the sidebars are sticky. So you don't have space for both ads and the trending/related queries at the same time.
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  Dec 22, 2023
  clifftky Author

  Alternatively, apply for AdSense for search (subject to Google approval) and get the ad revenue share from the search ads instead
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  Dec 22, 2023
  sakima

  Can I set my media to appear at the top of the search?
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  Dec 23, 2023
  clifftky Author

  Hi Sakima, not at the top of search results as that is where the Google ads will appear. In my experience, Google can sometimes show up to 4 ads in that area. So the content will be pushed down quite a fair bit already.
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  Dec 23, 2023
  sakima

  I'm not talking about advertising.
  I want to display my web site at the top.
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  Dec 24, 2023
  clifftky Author

  The header is also sticky at the top by design. To your question, if you want to put anything above the header, it is still possible but some technical adjustments will be necessary.
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  Dec 24, 2023
  sakima

  Can I get users to pay to have my site appear at the top of searches?
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  Dec 24, 2023
  clifftky Author

  This script does not have ad space selling functionality. You can browse the sections in the admin demo to see what's possible.

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  Dec 20, 2023
  dijitalpara

  Hi, I cant login admin page.
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  Dec 20, 2023
  clifftky Author

  Hi there, I'm able to login via https://vertica.clifford.io/demo/login. Refresh the page and try again? Thanks
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  Dec 20, 2023
  dijitalpara

  Sorry, your request is unauthorize
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  Dec 20, 2023
  dijitalpara

  https://prnt.sc/6-7DuPRPSVb_
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  Dec 20, 2023
  clifftky Author

  Apologies dijitalpara, I checked my demo server and realised the cache was turned on accidentally, thus causing the experience you had. I've turned it off and tested a few more times. It is now OK. My apologies again!
  https://prnt.sc/3FljtI94f6sI

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  Dec 20, 2023
  codervp

  hii bro, How can I contact you directly