No Client ID in SiteSearch HTML

[jomaxx]

When I select the standard Google searchbox, the usual pub-9999999999 code is inserted as a hidden variable. When I select the SiteSearch option, that identifier does not appear! Anybody else see this?

I see they have the domain name in the form variables, but using the domain alone to remit money back to the correct AdSense account seems foolhardy. Either I'm missing something or this is a huge bug.

P.S. I hope they CAN'T track those searches because when I was testing out various layouts, the ad format is unfamiliar and I clicked one of the ads. Doh! First time ever!

[edited by: jomaxx at 5:38 am (utc) on June 18, 2004]

[moishe]

Perhaps you don't get paid for someone searching your site...?

[asinah]

Looks to me like a small bug. If I disable site search to pub-id and channel show up.

If I use Google Search the pub-id shows up.

[ChrisKud5]

Sounds like the code should have been worked out a little more before it was fed to publishers.

I am staying far FAAARRRRR away from this gimmick.

[asinah]

I modified the code and started after the search submit field. Checked the reporting just now and I noted some activity on the report and it seems to be working.

As already mentioned in another thread we have the Google Search box on thousands of pages and we only show results of our own domains. We don't want to run our inhouse search engine to crawl our content as it would slow down our sites.

For our website we have nothing to loose. We have used the Google Site Search already for over a year and we generate a a couple of thousand searches per day. I hope it will increase our revenues.

[GrantNZ]

There does appear to be values for the publisher and the channel left out/missing from the code for the Google SiteSearch option, compared with the Google Search option.

I have their code for SiteSearch operating but I guess we may miss out on income until Google fixes the code for SiteSearch.

[arubicus]

It is fixed now. Got mine updated. The uneven google logo is fixed also.

[RonPK]

Yep, they fixed it. I had to reload the page with the search settings to load the new javascript.

Custom title hyperlinks are also implemented now. Earlier I got the default blue links on the SERP.

Someone is making extra hours at the Googleplex. Shouldn't people be asleep now in California?

[asinah]

Everything works well now.

I am very delighted about this new service.

[jomaxx]

Yeah, I can see that field in the code I generate this morning. But it definitely was not there last night.