Thanet Finder - The Search Engine for Thanet

Thanet's only dedicated search engine was created in early 2008 by a number of local web users to enable a more relivant local search.

The Thanet Finder search engine is powered by the impressive might of Google and uses the data centres and indexes of Google to provide a base for search results. Results are limited to pages that have been encluded in anyone of the following ways:

• Pages from a site that has been added directly to the Thanet Finder list. The list is maintained by a number of Thanet Residents and any active maintainer can add a site.
• Sub Sites found from key Thanet sites such as The Thanet Blog List or other recognised directories are automatically added.
• Specific pages linked from the Thanet Finder's: "Pages of interest to Thanet" list
• Other recognised lists of interesting pages will also be used to source pages for the search engine.

Website / Blog Widgets

Put the search box on your site

If you would like to enable your site users to search all of Thanet then you might like to put this search box on your website. Simply copy the HTML fromt he box and add it unchanged to your site.

<!-- Google CSE Search Box Begins --> <form action="http://thanetfinder.com/search-results.html" id="searchbox_001382269155419216547:enp0o7nyhfe"> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="001382269155419216547:enp0o7nyhfe" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9" /> <input type="text" name="q" size="25" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> </form> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_001382269155419216547%3Aenp0o7nyhfe&lang=en"></script> <!-- Google CSE Search Box Ends -->

The above code will put a simple search box on your site. However you can also build a Google Gadet!

Link to us

To link to us you can use the any of the following HTML.

<!--Thanet Finder link code starts --> <div style="text-align:center;font-size:120%;"><strong><a href="http://thanetfinder.com">Thanet Finder: Search Thanet</a></strong></div> <!--Thanet Finder link code ends-->

The above code produces the follow results

<!--Thanet Finder link code starts --> <div style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://thanetfinder.com">Thanet Finder<br />Search Thanet</a></strong></div> <!--Thanet Finder link code ends-->

The above code produces the follow results

Do you want to help?

Thanet Search relies on the efforts of the people of thanet to add sites and content to it's index. You can do this in a number of fantastically easy ways.

By becoming a search engine maintainer

All you need is a Google account and you can join with the otehr dedicated souls adding and listing Thanet sites via a Google control Panel. For more information visit The Google Page for Thanet's search engine

Create an index or directory of content

By creating an index of great and specifc Thanet content you create a list we can point the engine at and say "include all of these links". It's like being a list editor except you have the option to place adverts and engage with the Thanet community directly.

Blog about Thanet

Create the content! A great way to create great content for Thanet is to create a blog about Thanet. Thanet already has a lively and interesting blogging community and you would be a welcome addition to the family.

Talk to us

We maintain a profile on the Live in Thanet social networking site. Feel free to leave us messages or to talk to us in the forums. The more feedback we get the better we can make things.