Adding Google custom search

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  islamic1articles · Member · Apr 25, 2019 at 5:00 am

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  I want to add Google custom search to my free blog ‘https://islamic1articles.home.blog’. However, when I paste the snippet (below) in the ‘HTML widget’, the search box is not displayed. But only displays the code (below). What should I do

  (function() {
  var cx = ‘010238550591688396943:gbsocfzmbk8’;
  var gcse = document.createElement(‘script’);
  gcse.type = ‘text/javascript’;
  gcse.async = true;
  gcse.src = ‘https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=’ + cx;
  var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0];
  s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);
  })();

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  staartmees · Member · Apr 25, 2019 at 5:48 am

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  You cannot insert code in a wordpress.com website or blog. If you write some code or copy-and-paste from another site, and then it disappears after publishing the post, the code is likely being stripped out as a security precaution, https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/.
  An alternative is Jetpack Search, https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/blocks/jetpack-search/