Programmable Search Engine Blog: 2011

Improvements to Autocomplete

Friday, December 9, 2011

AutocompletionsPromotions in Autocomplete: Promotions are a great way to call special attention to a result by putting it at the top of search results and making it visually distinct. Now you can choose to display them in autocomplete too. To enable this feature, simply click Show promotions in autocomplete in the Promotions section of your CSE’s Control Panel. Note that promotions based on regular expressions or the $q variable will not appear in autocomplete. If you’d like to have promotions that appear in autocomplete but not in search results, you can add them via the new Autocomplete Promotion tab of the Custom Autocompletions in the Autocompletion section of your CSE’s Control Panel.

Match mode give you options for how Google displays autocompletions. The following are now available in the Promotions section of your CSE’s Control Panel. Changes to match mode will require you to update the CSE code snippet on your site.

Prefix (default) mode matches the opening words of the user’s query: “how to bake” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.

Ordered mode doesn’t require the words to be in the opening, but their order must match the user’s query: “bake a pie” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.

Any mode matches regardless of the order of the words in the user’s query. “pie bake” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.

We hope these new options make autocompletions even more useful for your site. Read more about Promotions in Autocomplete and Match mode. Let us know what you think in our discussion forum. Posted by: Min Zeng, Software Engineer

Image Results for your Custom Search Engine

Thursday, December 1, 2011

launch of Custom SearchImageIndia-Forums.com

BasicsEnable image searchLook and feel

Statisticstransitioning all iframe usersGoogle Site SearchImage Results via XMLvisit our help centerdiscussion forumUpdate: check out the New York Times Image Search app powered by Google Custom Search.

Posted by: Peng Zhao, Software Engineer

More flexibility for promotions

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Custom Search promotions

Regular expressions: Use regular expressions instead of verbatim query matches to make it easier to display your promotions for all relevant user queries.Promotion URL and titles based on the user’s query: Instead of manually adding and maintaining a long list of similarly structured URLs and promotion titles, now you can use the $q variable in your promotion URL or title to replace it with the user’s query.Enable/disable individual promotions: Manually enable or disable each promotion without affecting the others.Promotions for Custom Search engines created in AdSense: Promotions now work for these CSEs (though they are still managed via the CSE’s control panel on the Google Custom Search site).help centerdiscussion forum

Iframe Custom Search Engines are transitioning to the Element

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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The power of structured search: a new job search engine for military veterans

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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Thumbnail images in search results -- no work required!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

thumbnails in rich snippetsElementMashable.com

Help Centerswitch to the Elementreviewsfeedback

Manage Custom Search Engines from within Webmaster Tools

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Webmaster ToolsfeedbackSharon Xiao

It’s now easier to set up Google Analytics Site Search tracking for your Custom Search Engine

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Site Searchtracking codemanagement page

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Submit Pagemaps directly to Custom Search

Monday, September 19, 2011

Richer Snippets PagemapsSitemapsOn-Demand Indexing requestsprivate keydiscussion forum

Google-hosted Custom Search Engines now use the Element

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Rich results templates out-of-the-box

Monday, July 18, 2011

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Improved On-Demand Indexing

Thursday, June 30, 2011

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feedbackPosted by: Rui Jiang, Software Engineer

More Layout Options

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Look and feel

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Transferring ownership of your Site Search engine

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Business Settings

A new Site Search engine is created with the identical configuration as your current Site Search engine.

The new Site Search engine is owned and can be administered by the new account owner.

Any unused query quota is transferred to the new Site Search engine.

The new Site Search engine will show the transfer history in the Business settings in the control panel

You can still continue to use the old engine, but ads may be displayed alongside search results and XML access is disabled.

Basics transferring ownershippost-transfer actionshelp centeruser forumPosted by: Yong Zhu, Software engineer

More powerful collaboration

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Admin accountsMake Money

CollaborationCollaborationCollaborationnotLet us knowPosted by: Rui Jiang and Abhishek Rajgarhia, Software Engineers.

Google Site Search on the Royal Wedding Website

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Cross posted on the Google Enterprise Blog www.officialroyalwedding2011.org

receptionMaid of HonourGoogle Site SearchPosted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager

Got ideas? We're listening.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Google Custom Searchyouwe told youProduct Ideas pagehelp forumquery autocompletionswoodbymobile search featuresstructured custom searchCustom Search Elementtweak the layoutcontrol autocompletionstheme for your adshelp forum

Posted by: Kelly Fee, Associate, Consumer Operations

Drag and drop search for Go Daddy websites

Monday, January 10, 2011

Wouldn't it be nice to just drag and drop a Custom Search box onto a website?

We thought so, and so did Go Daddy, the world's largest domain name registrar and top web hosting provider. Website owners using Go Daddy's WebSite Tonight product can now easily drag a search widget onto their web pages, and instantly turn on high-quality website search powered by the Custom Search platform.

WebSite Tonight is a do-it-yourself service that lets users create, design, update and publish websites without requiring any knowledge of HTML. The product offers 1,500+ design templates and enables users to very easily add widgets to their web pages. WebSite Tonight was named for its ease of use - users can create a website as quickly as one night.

Here’s how you add Custom Search to your website in WebSite Tonight:

Step 1: Select "Google Custom Search" from the list of available widgets

Step 2: Select a predefined search theme to match the style of your website

Step 3: Drag and drop the Google Custom Search box to the desired location on your website

Step 4: Search! Google search results appear within the Go Daddy website

Go Daddy also integrates with Google Webmaster Tools as part of the Google Services for Websites program. As Go Daddy automatically submits Sitemaps to Google, changes to websites are quickly discovered and indexed by Google's crawlers, thereby improving search quality on both the individual website as well as Google.com.

Ease of use plus better performance -- we like that combination. We hope you also like the concept of drag and drop search. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback.

Posted by: Radu Cornea, Software Engineer and Jae Jung, Senior Manager, New Business Development