Programmable Search Engine Blog

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

Custom Search promotions made easier

Monday, May 18, 2009

Posted by: Bartlomiej Niechwiej and Nicholas Weininger, Software Engineersmade it easiernew

you can control the look and feel of the promotions to distinguish them from regular search results (through Promotion Design Settings)

you may want to create promotions to highlight information for popular queries on your search engine (use search statistics to identify them)

you should delete promotions when they are no longer relevant

our updated developer documentation includes more information on promotions

promotions websitefeedback

Google

Enabling Rich Snippets in Custom Search

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Google web searchmicroformats or RDFaCustom SearchrichercustomPageMapsSite Search

<r n="1">
<u> http://www.xyz.com/business/vending_machine.html </u>
...
<t> In Italy, a Vending Machine Even Makes the <b>Pizza</b> </t>
...
<s>The European vending machine industry has annual sales of about #33 billion, much of it coming from factories and offices.</s>
...
<PageMap>
<DataObject type="image">
<Attribute name="image_src" value="http://www.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/14/business/14vend.751.jpg"/>
</DataObject>
<DataObject type="publication">
<Attribute name="author" value="John Tagliabue"/>
<Attribute name="date" value="March 14, 2009"/>
<Attribute name="category" value="Business/World Business"/>
</DataObject>
</PageMap>
...
</r>
feedbackAdvanced Custom Search ConfigurationGoogle I/O

Google

Web Search APIs: The next generation

Friday, April 17, 2009

Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager

World Wide Web conferencepanelCustom Search APIpanelconference program

Google

Google Services for Websites includes Custom Search

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Posted by: Radu Cornea, Software Engineer and Kevin Godzilla Lim, Technical Writer
As you might have read on the Official Google Blog today, Google is launching Google Services for Websites, a new program that lets partners offer Google services — including Custom Search, Site Search, Webmaster Tools, and AdSense — to their users.
Partners, such as hosting providers and blogging platforms, can integrate these services into their own management consoles, making the services easily accessible to their users. Google Services for Websites allows partners to create Google accounts, submit Sitemaps to Webmaster Tools, configure Custom Search, and provision new AdSense accounts on behalf of customers. Additionally, partners are eligible for referral fees for certain services.
Once Google Services for Websites has been integrated into the control panel, users can configure their Google services in minutes. These services can help increase website traffic, provide site search, and monetize website content. In fact, a number of web hosting providers have already integrated these services into their offerings.
Furthermore, all of these services are designed to complement and enhance one another. For example, Sitemaps submitted to Webmaster Tools not only improve the discoverability of websites on Google search, but also improve coverage and freshness in the Custom Search index. AdSense accounts can also be associated with search, which lets website owners earn revenues from relevant ads displayed alongside search results.
To learn more about integrating Google Services for Websites with your services, read the Google Services for Websites program overview.

Google

Integrating Custom Search with your service

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Posted by: For such developers, we have good news. We launched a new API that lets other services connect to Custom Search. You can programmatically create, update, and delete search engines without going through the Custom Search control panel. In fact, the API offers most of the functionality that the Custom Search platform provides, and we're working on supporting the rest.
If you provide a service such as hosting websites or blogs, you can partner with Google to create custom search engines for your users. You can use the API to integrate Custom Search into your management console. Your users can then create search engines using your service and will need to use the Custom Search control panel only if they want to be more involved in the customization of their search engines. In our previous blog entry, we talked about how several web hosting providers have already done this. (If you are a web hosting provider who wants to integrate search into the sites you host, please ping us.)
programmer's guide

Google

Home delivery of Custom Search to webmasters

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Posted by:
Custom Search Engine sitedelivered
If you own a website hosted on IPOWER, StartLogic, PowWeb, FatCow, BizLand, EasyCGI and several other web hosting providers, you can now configure Custom Search right in your hoster's management console - these hosters now support both Webmaster Tools and Custom Search. It's like having pizza delivered to your door instead of having to drive over to the pizza parlour!

a Google account is automatically created for you - you don't have to remember additional passwords or login to use these Google services

you can generate search engines for your websites by simply identifying your domains

shortcuts are provided to manage your Webmaster Tools account and your Custom Search Engines

Sitemaps for URLs on your sites can be automatically submitted to Webmaster Tools for better indexing on Google.com

your Custom Search engines will automatically recognize and use the submitted Sitemaps for enhanced indexing coverage

you can make money by associating your Adsense publisher ID with your search engines and sharing advertising revenue with Google

you can upgrade your search engines to use Site Search for further control over branding, presentation (via XML results) and On-Demand indexing

improves user experiencelet us knowprogrammer's guidecontact us

Google

Searching the Google Timeline

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Posted by: timelineGoogle Site Search

XML interfacecustom

Google

Useful links

Programmable Search Engine
Help Center
Support Forum
Developer Documentation
Google AdSense Blog

Google
Privacy
Terms