PUT GOOGLE SEARCH BOX IN BLOG

To put a single search box in your blog copy and paste the code below into a Html Page element in the sidebar :

<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get"><div style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 4px; width: 20em;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody><tr><td>
<input maxlength="255" value="" name="q" size="25" type="text"/>
<input value="Google Search" type="submit"/></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size: 75%;" align="left">
<input checked="checked" value="MYBLOG.blogspot.com" name="sitesearch" type="checkbox"/> only search this blog</td></tr></tbody></table></div></form>

Change MYBLOG to actual name of your blog.
It will look like this :

If you want to provide an option to search your blog or the Internet use this code instead :

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><div style="border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:20em;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><input type="text" name="q" size="25"
maxlength="255" value="" /><input type="submit" value="Google Search" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-size:75%">
<input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"value="http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com" checked /> only search this blog<br /></td></tr></table>
</div></form>

Instead of 'YOURBLOGNAME' put actual name of blog.
It will look like this :

PUT GOOGLE BLOGSEARCH BOX IN BLOG

If you want to put a Google Blogsearch box in your blog add this code in a Html page element :

<FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="http://blogsearch.google.com/">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="num" value="10" />
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="hl" value="en" />
<input name="as_sitesearch" value="BLOG_URL" type="hidden">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="as_q" style="width: 100px;" />
<INPUT TYPE="submit" value="Google Blog Search!" />
</FORM>

Change BLOG_URL to actual address of your blog.
It will look like this :

SEARCH FOR BLOGS

There are four options if you wish to search for other blogs :

1. Google Blog Search : It is a special search engine of Google for blogs. To search for blogs using this go to :

http://blogsearch.google.com/

2. Technorati Search : Technorati is a search engine specializing in blogs. To search go to Technorati and type in your query in the search box at the top and press Enter key on keyboard.

3. Search Blogger Profiles : You can use Blogger Profiles to search for Bloggers having the same interest as you do. For example to find Bloggers with an interest in music use :

http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=music

Change the word 'music' in above to what interest you want and paste in address bar of browser and press Enter.

4. Search for blogs at Google.com itself.

5. Blogger Style Interface Search.

6. The Navbar on any Blog*Spot blog. The Navbar, provides two buttons: one to search the blog you are currently viewing, and one to search all blogs.

CUSTOM GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE

You can also put a Custom Google Search Engine in your blog. You can customize this search engine to search only the sites or blogs you specify along with many other customizations.