readwriteweb.com — Google Custom Search Engine exposes the API behind the world's most powerful search engine. Why is Google offering this API? How can it be used? And what is the connection to vertical search? We explore the what, how, and why of Google CSE in this post.
Sep 6, 2007 View in Crawl 4
willemmulderSep 7, 2007
no ads, no spam, no site
spyrochaeteSep 7, 2007
Very nice implementation! Might I suggest bringing search to the top of the page? I think you also ought to put the word "search" in text near that field. Whenever I'm at a cluttered site (not that yours is, necessarily) I look for search near the top, and failing that, I use my browser's find command to look for the word "search".
just4funSep 7, 2007
Also check this <a class="user" href="http://www.rollyo.com/">http://www.rollyo.com/</a>
saint1959Sep 7, 2007
Google's CSE is pretty kick-ass...I've used it to create a couple of in-house projects as well as one public search engine. Like most web tools, you get out of it what you put into it. If you just open up a CSE account and add 20 web sites (or your own web site if you only want to use it for site search) without doing any additional configuration, it isn't going to be very good. It has a lot of advanced functionality (well advanced for me anyway, experienced programmers out there might disagree I suppose) that really let you customize how results get weighted and thus with some tweaking it delivers very good results.
slipsecSep 7, 2007
Is this really different than just googling for " something site:digg.com" ?
wrestlinSep 7, 2007
Good post cGt2009! My bad on hitting the wrong freakin button and burried the comment!!! is there a way to edit that selection and digg it instead? BTW Camel's spit and therefore love a good suck!
wiseyodaNov 27, 2007
Check out 8 more custom google search engines... including the famous LivoRobot.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/8_Custom_Google_Engine_Interfaces">http://digg.com/tech_news/8_Custom_Google_Engine_I ...</a>
tuncayergun82Nov 24, 2009
i tried <a class="user" href="http://websbee.com." rel="nofollow">http://websbee.com.</a> it was great !all popular engines in one.it also goes deep search behind links.