GSA search manipulate - change search keywords - google-search-appliance

IN our GSA, we want to manipulate the keywords sent from the front-end towards the GSA. Is it possible to forward the request to an external app, which will exclude some keywords or enrich the query, and then from there forward to the GSA?
Or maybe is there a way to write some code logic in the Front-End in order to modify the keywords before they are entered as input to the GSA?
Thanks

If you are using a custom portal or application from where you talk to GSA then you can very well get the user query, call an external application, manipulate your query, bring it back to the application, then fire the query to GSA. Once you submit to the frontend, there is no known way to manipulate the query. Custom Query processing does not exsit, afasik but pre-processing, should be possible by many means.
If you are using the default frontend then you sure can call a javascript method from XSLT to change your query and then submit request to GSA

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Just setup my CSE with Image Search enabled in the Basics tab, but still ain't getting results.
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It seems there are two elements required to consume the Google search API, the configuration of the API key and credentials.
Setup the API key here https://console.developers.google.com/project
and create your own CSE here https://www.google.co.uk/cse/all
I made the mistake like a lot of people of ignoring the CSE side of the setup (it didn't seem logical to search only my own site).
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Your API query should now start returning results.
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I'm just starting to play around with Orchard CMS. I like what I see so far, but I need to be able to create pages that display record details for data stored in another system. Does any one know if that is possible?
I have a SQL Server database that hold real estate property record information. This information gets displayed on the web. On that same website are informational content pages (FAQs, Contact Us, Home, etc...) What I would like to to is leverage the CMS portion of Orchard for the content pages. Then I would like to write a module using the Orchard that would get the real estate info, allow users to search parcels, and display detail pages for each parcel.
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