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This year in Custom Search
Monday, December 21, 2009
The Custom Search team has had a busy 2009. This is the year we
turned 3
. And now Custom Search is powering many tens of millions of queries a day on millions of small and large websites. We believe that search should be
easy
to deploy on your website, and, in addition to providing great relevance, should be flexible, customizable and feature-rich. With the help of
your suggestions
, we hope we are delivering on these goals.
This year, we hit many milestones. Here are some of the key developments:
integration with several hosters to bring Custom Search
to your doorstep
enabled support for
rich snippets
, giving you more control over presentation of results
it's now easier for you to
promote
specific content to the top of your search results
we deployed
contextual
search within
Blogger
, Google
Sites
and
Wikipedia
automatic
transliteration
is now integrated into the search box
improved results rendering flexibility with the Custom Search
Element
plug-n-play with
themes
for enhanced customizability of results look and feel
added support for structured
metadata
and the ability to restrict results by specific attributes
we got you ready for the growing population of users searching your websites with
mobile devices
, such as Android phones, iPhone, iPod Touch, Palm Pre, etc.
And there's so much more to do with Custom Search. We'll be working next year to give you additional metadata support, more results customization, and search features that will make it even easier for your users to find the right information faster on your websites. Your users will be happier and you can focus on more important things.
As always, we're looking at your
feedback
to guide our efforts. And don't forget to
follow us on Twitter
. Meanwhile, happy holidays, and we'll see you soon ... in the next decade!
Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee for the Custom Search Team
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