Viva Batista

I just dropped PicoSearch from my day site and substituted the Technorati Searchlet.  Much better.  Far superior search results, and no need to manually index the pages (so presumably no maximum page number.)  I wasn’t able to get it to work for this site–perhaps because it branches off from my primary TypePad account, perhaps because it’s not a public blog–but I’m happy for now.

When I initially set up the PicoSearch box, I had to tweak it considerably to get a fit I was happy with.  Just in case I ever want to restore it, here’s the code that worked well (at least visually) for the sidebar:

<!– Begin PicoSearch Query Box –>
<P><FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl"&gt;
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="index" VALUE="232131">
<TABLE BGCOLOR="WHITE" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0><TR><TD>
<TABLE BGCOLOR="WHITE" CELLSPACING=2 CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0>
<TR><TD colspan=2><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="query" VALUE="" SIZE="20"></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><A HREF="http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?wherefrom=picobox
&type=all" TARGET="_blank"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="http://www.picosearch.com/picosmall.gif&quot; ALT="PicoSearch"></A></TD>
<TD><nobr><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Go >>>" name="SEARCH"></nobr></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan=2 ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=-2><A HREF="http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl?index=232131&help=help"&gt;
Search Help</A></FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></FORM>
<!– End PicoSearch Query Box –>