Or, maybe this is just food for thought for some bomber to come up with a script to answer it.

If we use Cherrybomb and Fatbomb, we have two different sets of results; one, the SE normal results and , secondly, the PPC results.

To do this, at the moment, we seem to need two different search boxes. One to each script.

Is it possible...to have ONE search box that would query BOTH scripts for the "keyword" input and place them thusly:

Sponsored links (from Cherrybomb)
----------------------
Normal links (from Fatbomb)

...only asking the visitor for ONE INPUT?

Maybe this is possible now? I can't figure out an answer to it. If not, maybe a 'programming' bomber could look into it. I see it as being a beneficial capability of joining two bombs to provide more content to the visitor.

John

John,

Without code modifications, you I don't know of a way to use Cherrybomb results within the Fatbomb results. You can get PPC results from SF, RP and others using Java. Examples for this are in the templates included in the Fatbomb install.

Bo

Good question John,
With reguards to a "single" search box that spit out other bombs output together;

I have thought of that myself with the other bombs as well. However from a perl programming point of view it would require combining the code of the .cgi scripts. This is because you can only send (and perform) one "form action" to any given .cgi script at a time.

Might be also good to have a sort of Plug-in type master bomb script that would allows bombers to "plug-in" the bombs as modules into a single cgi. Such an idea would allow a single search box.

But this would surely be a good "wish list" item in my book for the bomb programmers.

Steve