Google’s New Personalized Search Engine for Sites & Blogs
Google had launched yesterday Google CSE (Custom Search Engine), a search feature for blogs and sites which can be tailored to a topic/sites of interest.Some of the features:
- Specify the sites you want to include in searches.
- Place a search box and search results on your website.
- Customize the look and feel to match your website.
- Invite your community to contribute to the search engine.
- Make money from relevant ads in your search results.
I’ve created a sample search for this blog, it searches a couple of sites, and is open for community contributions.
The signup process is very easy, all you need to do is label that particular engine, add a description, searchable sites, keywords and grab the pre-made code (as presented above). You can also add your adsense code to this engine (which I didn’t) and make some $$ off this feature.
So far, I think that this is a really good initiative on Google’s side, both sides can benefit, and this can add to the neverending exposite this engine is gaining.
PS. More example for the way this engine can be implemented into sited can be seen at Jumpup.com and RealClimate.org.
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1 opinion for Google’s New Personalized Search Engine for Sites & Blogs
Putch
Oct 24, 2006 at 9:28 am
Upon checking this out, three features stood out:
1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results.
2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker.
3) Anyone can volunteer to help.
So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results.
Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?)
The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com
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