Yesterday Google released a new service (beta, of course): Google Co-op. This basically allows you to create a search engine that will search only certain sites.
To give it a try I created a search engine to search a few sites indexing free computer books: OpenBoox Search Engine.
I also tried to integrate the search result into my new pet project: OpenBoox.com (beta as well). I am using Drupal for OpenBoox.com and it does not seem to be possible to integrate the search result into a Drupal site.
The Google generated search box code will post a parameter named q to the search result page. But Drupal also uses q as the parameter telling what page you want to see. Because of this Drupal is unable to display the search result page. I'll raise the problem on the Google Co-op discussion group and send feedback to Google.
Other than this small issue the custom search engine seem to work great.
Update: There is a workaround for this problem: rename the parameter from q to as_q.
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