Just a quick post to link to and recommend a great web part freely available on the web.
The Google Web Part, by Mark Wagner, is a quick and simple add on which allows you to add the power of Google to your Sharepoint site. For me, it was a great way to alleviate all of the complaints about making our Sharepoint site the homepage for all users.
Been using it for a while, just had to install on a test machine, which prompted the post. Here’s the link.
http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/articles/1009.aspx
Installation is easy too. You can either use the Web Part Installer on the page, or run the following commands to add and deploy.
stsadm -o addwppack -filename CastleRockGoogleWebPart.cab
stsadm -o deploywppack -name CastleRockGoogleWebPart.cab -url http://yoursharepointsite -immediate
Happy Googling!
