how to create a page where there are one input box but many searchable items?

Question

you know, in default google homepage, after you input keywords you can hit web,images,video,news,maps,books,froogle or groups. it will bring you to the corresponding search results page. but you can't hit yahoo search or youtube in this page. so can we create only one input box and many searchable items that you can search many items only inputting keywords once.
but i don't like checkbox.

so you can search whatever you'd like.

can i use form.key.value or onmouseover?

Answer 1

Yes, its possible to create such a page.
What I think you're asking for is one input field that can be used to search multiple different search engines - thats called a "meta search".

http://www.dogpile.com/ is one example of such a page.
http://www.metasearch.com/ is another.

Its possible to roll your own HTML page that does this, but it requires a fair degree of JavaScript - because the URLs that do the searching change depending on the search engine you want to query and the type of search you want to perform.

Also, many of these "homepages" like http://www.netvibes.com/ offer a multiple search engine approach in their standard widgets.

Answer 2

Basically you need to write or acquire an entire search engine. They are all essentially the same thing, regardless of how they represent their results.

Rawlyn.