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[Nery]

[center]★ Google Toolbar Tutorial ★
by Nery[/center]


Okay, ever wanted to add to your webbrowser a falsified "Google Toolbar" that allows the user to simply type the type of search he wants and press a button and it automatically makes a Google search into your webbrowser?

• Getting the Link

Ok, in order to do a google searcher: Open up your webbrowser, navigate to Google's search page, make a search of anything, for example I've made a search of the word "lol", after getting the search accomplished check out the URL; You may have something similar to this:

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http://www.google.pt/search?hl=pt-PT&source=hp&q=lol&btnG=Pesquisa+do+Google&meta=&aq=&oq=lo

Mine is in portuguese because I've used google.pt to make the search!

If you look closely into my link you can see the word "lol", exactly what I searched for!

This "lol" is a separator, copy all the URL you see before the "lol":

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http://www.google.pt/search?hl=pt-PT&source=hp&q=

paste it in a notepad or something, just remember it.

And now copy the URL after the "lol":

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&btnG=Pesquisa+do+Google&meta=&aq=&oq=lo

and as the last url part, remember it!

• Coding it!

Open up your Visual Basic.NET and add 1 button and 1 textbox to your form, leave the textbox with his default name, double tap the button you've just created and you may enter in the Code tab, once there type the following:

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WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.google.pt/search?hl=pt-PT&source=hp&q=" & TextBox1.Text & "&btnG=Pesquisa+do+Google&meta=&aq=&oq=lo")

Simplified:

YourWebbrowserControlName.Navigate("YourFirstPartofTheURL" & YourTextBoxControlName.Text & "YourSecondPartOfTheURL")

Well Done, you've just created a google searcher!

Have Fun!

[bjm0008]

Actually you don't need the last part all you need is:

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 Webbrowser1.navigate ("http://www.google.com/search?q=" & textbox1.text)

All of the extra stuff at the end isn't needed.

[Nery]

Really? I thought it was an importante piece of the URL.

[bjm0008]

Try to google search something with both of the URL's, they come out the same. You could have it either way, but when you use the it your way you get "Tip: Save time by hitting the return key instead of clicking on "search""

[Nery]

Alright. Then I'll keep it my way

[Normall]

Very Cool

[Miutubevids]

nice1 i did this ages ago for my web browser
it seems that every1 whodoes vb has to try 2 make a web browser :P