See for example this google query for wikipedia; the first result has both sitelinks and a search box to search within the website.
My site only has sitelinks. Is there anything I can do to make the search box appear?
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I think that the search box appears at the discretion of Google and their algorithms, but I have heard that having a CSE set up for your site can increase the likelihood that the box will appear, though this hasn't helped with any of my sites.
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Google decides based on your sites popularity, user keywords and function.– KevinJul 9, 2010 at 5:41
This is a little late, but you can now mark up your website with JSON-LD to add a search box below your site links.
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It is yes. I've had the code sat on my site for about 6 months and Google still haven't added a search box for mine. Jun 13, 2016 at 21:07
When your site will have a PR of 8 or more maybe you will get the search box in Google results too. Just kidding, I think Google placed it there only for Wikipedia, but it's interesting, it might be something experimental and maybe one day Google will place such search box for any site that ranks 1st in a his results.
answered Aug 14, 2010 at 23:44
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Whoever place a -1 could at least take the time to explain why. Aug 16, 2010 at 18:03
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1I can't tell you why the person down voted you, but I can tell you that you are absolutely wrong about it only being there for Wikipedia: google.com/search?q=time+and+date That search for
time and dateshould bring up timeanddate.com as the first result with a search box. Aug 20, 2010 at 1:32 -
@George Marian: thanks for taking the time to explain, cool, didn't know it. Aug 20, 2010 at 16:40