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Syndicate your Custom Search Engine
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Posted by Paul Komarek, Software Engineer
Since we introduced it last week, people have created many thousands of Custom Search Engines (CSEs). We all have our personal favorites (mine is the
Costume Search Engine
--for the name alone), but it's hard to keep track of urls like
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=005946352831473999820%3Aqdkicbyttxy
. It's also tough to help users find and return to the search engine you painstakingly created. So now there are two new gadgets that make Custom Search Engines more easily accessible for your users and yourself.
The first gadget is for fans of your search engine. Help them access it from everywhere -- their
Google personalized homepage
, their
desktops
, or from wherever Google Gadgets are
syndicated
. This gadget is a small and simple search box for your CSE that we hope keeps users coming back to your site.
To help your users find your CSE gadget, add the
button to your site. You can add it more than once, and it probably makes sense to have one next to your search engine's search box. There are instructions for adding this button in the "Code" tab of your search engine's control panel. Once a user clicks the
button, they will have easy access to your CSE, and to your site if that's where you display the search results.
Here's what the gadget looks like for the Costume Search Engine:
If you want see how the
button works before putting one on your site, visit your CSE homepage on the
Google Co-op site
.
The second gadget helps you access and manage your own CSEs. We're calling it the
Custom Search Console
. You can
add it now
to your Google personalized homepage, or look for the
button at the bottom of your CSE
management page
.
The console provides an instantly-updated view of all your CSEs, complete with with links to their homepages, control panels, and a dedicated search box all crammed into a tiny-but-usable interface. This screenshot shows my Custom Search Console, including the Pet Rats Custom Search Engine I recently started building.
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