Programmable Search Engine Blog: 2012

Introducing Custom Search Element v2

Friday, August 3, 2012

Custom Search Engine

Search UI is rendered based on the settings stored on the Google CSE servers. This means that any configuration changes you make in the CSE control panel will automatically be reflected on your web pages the next time they reload. You no longer need to copy-and-paste new element code into your website when you modify your CSE using the control panel.

All element code is loaded asynchronously for reduced page load times.

Client-side customization allows you to overwrite global CSE settings on a per-page basis. For example, you can enable search history, disable auto search on page load, configure different Google Analytics parameters, and more. Customization is done through an easy-to-use HTML syntax which does not require any Javascript knowledge.

Ads background colors in Custom Search

Friday, June 15, 2012

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Sorting and Filtering Results in Custom Search

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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A new look for Custom Search results plus a new search box

Monday, March 12, 2012

evolving Google designThis look will be the new default for new custom search engines, and admins of existing custom search engines can also choose this new style by visiting the Look and feel page of their CSE’s control panel and selecting “Default” in the Choose or customize a style section. The old default remains an option, but has been renamed to “Classic”.

In addition to the new style for results, we’ve also updated the search box and made autocomplete more robust and consistent with the standard Google autocomplete. Note that this update affects all CSEs that use the Element so, in some rare cases, site owners who have made customizations to their CSE search box (or who have enabled autocomplete for their own search boxes) may need to make minor updates to accommodate the new search box’s slightly different look. We hope you and your visitors enjoy these updates. Let us know what you think in our discussion forum. Posted by: Dana Bright, UI Designer

Image results now available from the Custom Search API

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Last year we added image results to Google Custom Search Engines to enable sites to offer image-only results that showcase photos and other digital images. For site owners who want more flexibility in presentation, they are also now available from the Custom Search API.Read more about accessing Image Results from the Custom Search API or try it out in the Custom Search API Explorer. For billing purposes, image queries will be treated the same as web queries. Note that you need to enable image search in your custom search engine control panel for the custom image search to work.
Let us know what you think in our discussion forum.
Posted by: Nam Nguyen, Software Engineer

Businesses: share Google Site Search query quota between multiple engines

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Google Site Search

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A new and easy way to add new pages to your Custom Search Engine’s index

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Our users have been telling us that while they love the concept of on-demand indexing, manually entering URLs or keeping a Sitemap up to date is too cumbersome. A new year brings a new and improved solution. If you are a Webmaster Tools verified site owner and have a page that links to your site’s latest content, simply provide us with that page’s URL and we will periodically visit it to discover your site’s new content.
For example, as the owners of this blog, we can provide the URL of the blog’s landing page, googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com, to our CSE. It will then periodically visit that URL and add any new links to content on this blog to our CSE’s index. Since this URL automatically links to all new content on this blog, our CSE’s index will always automatically get updated.
You can provide a URL(s) to your CSE via the URLs linked from a page feature in the Indexing page of your CSE’s Control Panel. Note that this feature is only for the discovery of new content and does not refresh content that has already been indexed.
To learn more about URLs linked from a page, please visit our help center. Let us know what you think in our discussion forum.
Posted by: Liqian Luo, Software Engineer

Custom Search JavaScript API is now fully documented!

Friday, January 13, 2012

Comprehensive JavaScript reference for the Custom Search Element. We’ve completely overhauled our Custom Search Element API documentation to provide a comprehensive overview of all the JavaScript methods available. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

More languages. The Help Center is now available in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Easier navigation and cleaner design. We’ve reorganized the Help Center to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for. Navigation is simpler and more streamlined. Individual articles have been revised and updated, and designed to be more readable.

Help Centerdeveloper documentationuser forumPosted by: Riona MacNamara, technical writer