DNN 4.5.2 Web and Site Search radio buttons

The latest version of DNN has a new search feature that allows you to have google adsense.
Several people have complained of this new feature messing up their skins.

You can turn it off by adding a couple attributes to your search skinObject

< dnn:SEARCH runat="server" id="dnnSEARCH" showWeb="False"showSite="False" />

This feature also has the ability to let you participate in revenue sharing from Google ads.
But to do so you will need to change the default client id to your own.

You can do that by changing the language resource file at admin/skins/App_LocalResources/Search.ascx.resx
Look for the Url key that looks like this:

<dataname="URL.Text"><value>http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=pub-9770992166002654&sitesearch=[DOMAIN]&q=[TEXT]value>data>

Change the client=pub-9770992166002654 part to your own.

To get your own Adsense Account go to http://www.google.com/adsense

 Keep in mind that you will also have to change this back again any time you upgrade, or when the language file gets over-written you will switch back to letting DotNetNuke Corporation recieve the revenue.

As an update, this "feature" was talked about extensively in the following thread.

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Default.aspx?tabid=795&forumid=-1&scope=posts&threadid=138793

I don't know why Shaun admitted it was a mistake and then did not change it in DNN 4.5.3, but the behaviour remains the same.

When I checked out the Adsense module, I found that it worked as I would have expected. It waits for you to put in an Adsense ID before it displays the ads.  I didn't dig through the code of the module though, so there still may be another surprise or three.

I did read somewhere that you would get taken to the DotNetNuke site to create your Adsense account, I think it was the last newsletter, but I didn't see where to do that.  Maybe it is the vendor area.

I personally think this whole Adsense area should have been put in front of more eyes for feedback, but oh well.

Yes, I can go into my Adsense account and see the number of times someone has used the Google search on my site (with Google's code).  I would also see the revenue generated if anyone happened to click on an ad the was shown as a result of the search.

I don't see any of the information now.  The Adsense report says No Data Available.  As far as I know, I don't have to set up a channel to see generic data like the number of searches in a day.

Thanks.