For the entire time I've had a b2/wordpress blog the search function that they provided was available. With the move to wordpress (and the Slate design) the Search function got a page to itself. This was good. It had nice features, for example searching for "madness" returned only one result, so it sent you straight to the "permalink" url for that page.
However, in terms of finding things, it wasn't very good. It lacked something in a search. It occurred to me while searching around the net, as I do, that what it was lacking was the google touch. Lets face it, most of the time I want to find something on a website I just go to google and do a search for "query +site:somedomain.co.nz".
For a short period I contemplated using Google's branded search options. The answer dawned on me very shortly after that. Google API was the answer. So I quickly registered again (having done so some time ago and having no idea where my previous key might be) for a new key. I found a GoogleAPI class for PHP that nicely exposed everything I might need for doing searches, culling monkeys, etc.
Thus Search2 was born, powered by Google's trained monkeys.
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