On: I made a 'search engine' for fun

[ctdonath]

Searching for "foobub" on foobub.com gives http://www.google.com/search?q=foobub - clarification please?

[vu0tran → ctdonath]

My site does not SEO well.

If it's really confident about a result, it'll only give 1 or 2 results. i.e. http://foobub.com/?s=cats

If it's kinda confused, it gives multiple results and ranks the site by most likely: http://foobub.com/?s=what%20is%20the%20answer%20to%20life%20...

If it has no what you're doing, it'll search it on Google for you: http://foobub.com/?s=foobub

My website is not yet self-aware. No need to worry, guys.

[jaredsohn → vu0tran]

It is unfortunate that doing so takes you away from the site (I imagine the basic use case right now is to type in a bunch of queries to see what it displays.)

Ideally, it would show Google search results in an iframe, although I imagine that is against their TOS. Maybe just linking to Google search results would be a better experience.

[eru → jaredsohn]

Or you can use a similar deal to what duckduckgo does.

[clone1018 → ctdonath]

if(input != found in index) redirect( google search )