Embed Google Search in Your Custom Applications
Written by – Vinay Hatwal
Dt. 03-Jul-2009
Dear all,
This time I came with the topic “Embed Google Search in Your Custom Applications”. With this we can embed Google search in our application. First of all I will discuss the tools which you need to install on your PC to use the Google Search
- .Net Framework 3.5
- Google Search API for .NET 0.2 (GoogleSearchAPI_0.2.zip)
- GoogleSearchAPI_0.2.zip
- GoogleSearchAPI.dll
Steps to do
1) Create a new project with vb.Net 2.0 or 3.5.(Windows Application)
2) Add Reference of GoogleSearchAPI.dll
3) Add following controls
- RichTextBox – RichTextBox1
- Label- Label1
- TextBox- TextBox1
- Button- Button1
4) Your Interface will look like
5) Add the following coding in your Form1.cs file
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
‘Declaring Generic IList for IWebResult Interface
‘You can use -
‘1) IWebResult
‘2) IVideoResult
‘3) INewsResult
‘4) INewsResult
‘5) IImageResult
‘ AND MORE
Dim results As IList(Of Google.API.Search.IWebResult)
‘Taking result
‘calling of Google.API.Search.GwebSearcher.Search(search text, Number of search result would be returned at a time)
results = Google.API.Search.GwebSearcher.Search(TextBox1.Text, 10)
Dim str As String = “”
RichTextBox1.Text = “”
For Each r As Google.API.Search.IWebResult In results
‘Fetching Title
str = str & “Title :” & r.Title & vbCrLf
‘Fetching URL
str = str & “URL :” & r.Url & vbCrLf
‘Fetching VisibleUrl
str = str & “VisibleUrl :” & r.VisibleUrl & vbCrLf
‘Fetching Content
str = str & “Content :” & r.Content & vbCrLf
str = str & “=========================================================================================” & vbCrLf
Next
RichTextBox1.Text = str
End Sub
End Class
6) Now Enter the text to search on text box and click on Go. The result will look like –
