Iimplement schema code

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Valentina Huff: Has anyone tried to implement schema for their website search engine and if so, what would you put in the schema code below?
  
  <meta itemprop="target" content="https://query.example.com/search?q={search_term_string}"/>
   ;  ; <input itemprop="query-input" type="text" name="search_term_string" required/>
  
  This is the example I got from schema.org/WebSite but not sure what to replace their examples with.
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  Edwin Jonk: This code is used by Google to add a search box within the sitelinks. If Google will show that search box within their SERP's is unknown and relies on their algo's. ;
  
  However this specific code wouldn't work for Google. Namely it is missing a couple of things.
  
  First it needs to be wrapped into _itemtype="http://schema.org/WebSite"_ .
  Second it is missing which action, in this case it should be _itemprop="potentialAction" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SearchAction"_
  
  Therefore the microdata should look something like:
  
  <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebSite">
   ; <meta itemprop="url" content="https://www.example.com/"/>
   ; <form itemprop="potentialAction" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SearchAction">
   ;  ; <meta itemprop="target" content="https://example.com/search?q={search_term_string}"/>
   ;  ; <input itemprop="query-input" type="text" name="search_term_string" required/>
   ;  ; <input type="submit"/>
   ; </form>
  </div>
  
  For this specific markup, Google is recommending ld+json instead of microdata [1]. However the current data testing tool from Google doesn't work for this. Therefore use the testing tool on Google Developers:
  https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/
  
  [1] ;https://developers.google.com/structured-data/slsb-overview
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  Valentina Huff: Wow, thank you so much +Edwin Jonk ;for helping me out on this one. MOST appreciated! ;
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  Valentina Huff: +Edwin Jonk ;How long have you been doing SEO?