I was looking for a way to improve the search box I had on my website.
Then I found Steve C. Orr's article about it, and “saw it was good“.
But, after implementing that in my website, I immidietly saw that somethings, MSN didn't find on my website. Sure, I need to think about SEO and such, but what do you do until everything is fixed?
I took the results from the MSN search API and combined them with the search I already had. I don't want to temper with the results, in case that violates the user agreement, so I was careful only to add resuts, and keep the MSN results in the same order in which they come from MSN.
Protected Sub SearchBox1_SearchResultsReady(ByVal SearchResults As System.Data.DataTable) Handles SearchBox1.SearchResultsReady
'get product search results
Dim ds As DataSet = NewEwdCommon.oProductData.SearchProducts(Request.Params("for"))
Dim dt As New DataTable
dt.Columns.Add(
"Title")
dt.Columns.Add(
"Url")
If ds.Tables(0).Rows.Count > 0 Then
Dim row As DataRow
Dim ProductPageUrlFormat As String = _
Request.ServerVariables(
"SERVER_NAME") & Request.ApplicationPath & _
"/" & Master.VehicleChooser.VehicleArgumentsDirectoryString & _
NewEwdCommon.MyUrl.ProductDetails.Start &
"{0}" & NewEwdCommon.MyUrl.ProductDetails.Finish
ProductPageUrlFormat = ProductPageUrlFormat.Replace(
"//", "/")
ProductPageUrlFormat =
"http://" & ProductPageUrlFormat
For Each row In ds.Tables(0).Rows
Dim sTitle As String = String.Format("{0}, Product {1}, SKU {2} - sale price is {3}", _
row(ProductDB.FieldNames.ProductName), _
row(ProductDB.FieldNames.ProductID), _
row(ProductDB.FieldNames.SKU), _
row(ProductDB.FieldNames.PriceCustomer))
Dim sUrl As String = String.Format(ProductPageUrlFormat, row(ProductDB.FieldNames.ProductID))
dt.Rows.Add(sTitle, sUrl)
Next
'finished, now merge the two data tables:
dt.Merge(SearchResults)
End If
DataList1.DataSource = dt
DataList1.DataBind()
End Sub
posted @ Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:09 AM