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Custom Search now available in Parallels Plesk Panel

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

announcedPleskGoogle Services for Websites

theme and layoutSite SearchfeedbackPosted by: Radu Cornea, Software Engineer and Jae Jung, Business Development Manager

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Custom data rendering in results

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

themessynonymsstructured Custom SearchCustom Search data renderingScribd

Search API blogPosted by: David Gibson and Nicholas Weininger, Software Engineers

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Synonyms made easy

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

refinement labelscustom synonyms

Site Searchdocumentation

Try it outPosted by: Tianyu Wen, Software Engineer

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Creating standalone search results pages with the element

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

themesfull-width2-column compactmobile search results

differentdetailed postlet us knowPosted by: Jeff Scudder, Developer Programs Engineer

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Designing the look and feel with XML

Monday, February 8, 2010

XML formatcontext filelook and feel sectionelementgdgt

LookAndFeelpredefined themes
<LookAndFeel code="4"
googlebranding="watermark"
element_layout="1"
theme="1"
custom_theme="true"
text_font="Arial, sans-serif">
<Logo/>
<Colors url="#008000"
background="#FFFFFF"
border="#FFFFFF"
title="#0000CC"
text="#000000"
visited="#0000CC"
title_hover="#0000CC"
title_active="#0000CC" />
<Promotions title_color="#0000CC"
title_visited_color="#0000CC"
url_color="#008000"
background_color="#FFFFFF"
border_color="#336699"
snippet_color="#000000"
title_hover_color="#0000CC"
title_active_color="#0000CC" />
<SearchControls input_border_color="#BCCDF0"
button_border_color="#666666"
button_background_color="#CECECE"
tab_border_color="#E9E9E9"
tab_background_color="#E9E9E9"
tab_selected_border_color="#FF9900"
tab_selected_background_color="#FFFFFF" />
<Results border_color="#FFFFFF"
border_hover_color="#FFFFFF"
background_color="#FFFFFF"
background_hover_color="#FFFFFF" />
</LookAndFeel>

LookAndFeeldeveloper guidePosted by:

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Changes to the hosted home page

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Elementoptimized for high-end mobile deviceshttp://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=013315504628135767172:d6shbtxu-uothemes

feedbackPosted by: Radu Cornea, Software Engineer

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This year in Custom Search

Monday, December 21, 2009

turned 3 easyyour suggestions

integration with several hosters to bring Custom Search to your doorstep

enabled support for rich snippets, giving you more control over presentation of results

it's now easier for you to promote specific content to the top of your search results

we deployed contextual search within Blogger, Google Sites and Wikipedia

automatic transliteration is now integrated into the search box

improved results rendering flexibility with the Custom Search Element

plug-n-play with themes for enhanced customizability of results look and feel

added support for structured metadata and the ability to restrict results by specific attributes

we got you ready for the growing population of users searching your websites with mobile devices, such as Android phones, iPhone, iPod Touch, Palm Pre, etc.

feedbackfollow us on TwitterPosted by: Rajat Mukherjee for the Custom Search Team

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