Can You Remove "Google Custom Search" From Search Box?

When you install the Google Custom Search Engine on your pages, on many browsers, you will notice that inside the search box is read in a light font, "Google Custom Search." Here is a screen shot of our implementation on this site.

A Google Groups thread asks how can you remove the default text from the search box.

To be clear, this is against the terms of service as mentioned by a Google Coop Engineer.

2.3 Attribution. The Search Box shall conspicuously display a graphic (available at http://www.google.com/coop/images/searchbox.gif ) that indicates that the Service is provided by Google. The graphic shall link to the Google site located at http://www.google.com or such other address as Google may designate from time to time during the Term.

But if you want to take a chance and remove the attribution then according to the Google Groups you can add the value=" ", so the code looks like:

<input name="q" type="text" size="40" value=" " />

There are mentions that the AJAX implementation by default does not show the "Google Custom Search" text. If that is the case, then go with that method and you won't be violating Google's terms of service.

Forum discussion at Google Groups.

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posted rustybrick in Other Google Topics at February 23, 2007 1:37 PM Comments (10)

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Why would anyone want to remove that text from the search box? It makes no sense. It's not like you can't tell from the results that they are being driven by Google.

Posted by Michael Martinez at February 23, 2007 15:43

I assume they don't want "Google" on every single page of their site. They don't mind them on the search results but on every page there is a search box, they may feel is a bit too much.

Either way - if you want to remove the text, you need to find a different provider. :)

Posted by Barry Schwartz at February 23, 2007 15:49

I wanted to remove that bit of text from myne and then I found out it was agaiinst the trems of service, I haven't done much cosutomizing with myne yet:

http://www.seoco.co.uk/search.html

I think I am going to revamp it and turn it into an SEO Search Engine.

Posted by David Eaves at February 24, 2007 18:45

When I do a search on your site it makes the site bigger and ads horizontal a scroll bar.

Posted by ogletree at February 25, 2007 23:44

Looks like everyone in the SEO community is now going to produce an SEO search engine with Google's CSE service. At least I was the first among many.... :)

Posted by Michael Martinez at February 26, 2007 11:49

How I can remove stored search terms from ggogle search box.

Posted by nancy at May 21, 2007 06:15

How can i remove google custom search text from google custom search box

Posted by sansuy at June 19, 2009 00:45

When I go to Google ie. 'a' all items starting with 'a' appears but I would like to delete the ones not required to keep the list as short as poosible

Posted by WESSEL at July 6, 2009 02:56

i just placed the c-search in my blog-n yeah iread the tos of adsense n its clearly written we cannot delete the google attibutes

Posted by No Name at November 13, 2009 14:29

I got google custom search page and I don't want it!!!!!
How do I get rid of it and just have the mozillafirefox start page

Posted by paual at January 23, 2010 23:47

Can You Remove "Google Custom Search" From Search Box?

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