We can place google search on the Dashboard .
It is very simple. In the Dashboard take a text box and copy this HTML. Make sure to tick the HTML box. Once this is done save it and you can use Google search on your dashboard.
<HTML>
<center>
<FORM method=GET
action="http://www.google.com/search" TARGET="_blank">
<TABLE
bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td>
<A HREF="
http://www.google.com/">
<IMG
SRC="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" border="0"
ALT="Google" align="absmiddle"></A>
<INPUT TYPE=text
name=q size=31 maxlength=255 value="">
<INPUT TYPE=hidden
name=hl value="en">
<INPUT type=submit
name=btnG VALUE="Google Search">
</td></tr></TABLE>
</FORM>
</center>
</HTML>
Cheers !!
Jethin