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The latest news, updates and tips from the Programmable Search Engine team

Connecting with the Adobe Community with Google Site Search

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Posted by: Tom Duerig, Software Engineer

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Beefed-up developer guide

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Posted by: developer guidesynonym expansionintegration with Subscribed Links

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Delivering Custom Search to your applications

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Posted by: Mark Lucovsky, Software EngineerCustom SearchAJAX Search API2008 U.S. Electionmore detailsVisualDx HealthRolling Stone

Take a plain old web search URL like this

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=barack%20obama

Add a new CGI arg called &cx to refer to an existing custom search engine

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=barack%20obama&cx=010222979794876194725:pqldevwuapa

var search = new google.search.WebSearch();
search.setSiteRestriction("010222979794876194725:pqldevwuapa");
search.execute("barack obama");
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Creative uses of Custom Search

Monday, August 18, 2008

Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager and John Skidgel, Senior Interaction Designer

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You can create a CSE on the fly using the MakeCSE tool. Provide the URL of a page that has a bunch of hyperlinks and MakeCSE will extract the links, construct a CSE, and provide you the search results instantly. As the links on the page change, the CSE is automatically updated.

A CSE for your blog. Try out this Blogger widget that searches your Blogger blog and blogrolls automatically.

A CSE that uses our XML API within Google App Engine allows you to save search results or email them to friends and manage them in personalized lists. Here's a screenshot from the UXFind application:

CSE for bookmarked URLs that have a particular tag on del.icio.us, for example, http://delicious.com/tag/photography?setcount=100.

CSE 'for searching pages with links'. This would be great for webpages that have a lot of links, such as the directory category pages on the Open Directory Project website.

CSE that searches across URLs that your friends are embedding in their Twitter messages.

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Spanking new developer guide

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Posted by: Kevin Grendelzilla Lim, Technical Writernew developer guidecode.google.comGoogle CodeHappy reading

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Custom Search at the core of Google Site Search

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Posted by: Matt Wytock and Vrishali Wagle, Software EngineersGoogle Site Search

Expanded coverage: We already search through all of your pages that are in the Google.com index. Tell us about more pages on your site by submitting a Sitemap. We'll crawl your Sitemap and add these pages to your custom search engine so that your search engine has the maximum coverage. (These additional pages will only be available to your custom search engine; your PageRank and Google.com rankings won't change in any way.)

Custom Synonyms: You can now define custom synonyms for your custom search engine. For example, you can define "cd" as meaning"certificate of deposit." When a visitor searches for "cd" on your search engine, we will return pages that contain either "cd" or "certificate of deposit." You can specify these synonyms in the XML definition of your search engine.

Date Biasing: Fine-tune the relevance of search results by specifying a bias for newer documents. We allow various levels of biasing, the highest of which approximately sorts by date.

Top Results Biasing: If you want the first N results to always match a refinement, you can specify that as a property of the refinement. We will try to fill up the top N positions with results matching that refinement before showing other relevant results.