The Programmable Search Element offers a straightforward way to add Programmable Search to your website. Until now, the only version of the Search Element available to most customers has been the free ads-supported version.
Today we’re happy to announce a new ads-free configuration of the Search Element using the Programmable Search Element Paid API. By enabling this API and linking it to your search engine, you can opt to pay on a per-query basis ($5 per 1000 queries) instead of showing ads. No code changes on your website are necessary to switch from a free ads-supported Search Element to the paid ads-free version. You can switch back to the free ads-supported version of the Search Element at any time.
Setting a Paid Element key in the Control Panel:
Search Element results, ads-free:
Click here to learn more and get started with the Programmable Search Element Paid API.
Note that this does not affect the existing Custom Search JSON API, which continues to offer a programmatic ads-free way to access search results without using the Search Element. Click here to see a comparison of all Programmable Search offerings.
Search Results that are created using Programmable Search Engine may display “Enhanced by Google”. If the Search Box and Search Results are rendered through the Programmable Search Engine Search Element, then this will happen automatically.
Today, we're happy to announce that users using their own search box or the Custom Search JSON API may add this attribution using the new Programmable Search Attribution API. Simply include a single tag:
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/prose/brand.js" targetId="divId"></script>
Everyone using Google branding in their own search box should use this new resource. For more information see the help pages on Attribution API and Branding Guidelines.
Many of you have requested a process to allow multiple users to own a Programmable Search Engine. For instance, you may have created, developed and customized your website's search experience under your Google account, but want the long-term management of the search engine to be performed by someone else.
Now, you can easily add a new owner to your search engine by simply selecting the Owner User Role when you add a user in the Users tab in the control panel.
The Custom Search JSON API lets you develop websites and applications to retrieve and display search results from Programmable Search Engine (formerly Google Custom Search) programmatically. Basic monitoring for the API has been available through Cloud Platform Console's API Dashboard.
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Custom Search JSON API is now integrated with Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). Google Cloud's operations suite supports a wide variety of metrics, which you can combine with filters and aggregations for new and insightful views into your application performance. For example, you can combine a request count metric with a grouping on the HTTP Response Code to build a dashboard that shows error rates over time, or aggregate a latency metric at varying percentiles. Learn more about creating custom dashboards, setting up alerts, and accessing metrics data programmatically.
Example of a custom dashboard showing QPS and error rates:
Custom dashboard showing latency percentiles:
Defining an alert on a QPS threshold:
See Monitoring Your API Usage for a discussion of the different monitoring and alerting capabilities provided by the API Dashboard and the Google Cloud Operations suite.
