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Google Site Search on the Royal Wedding Website

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Cross posted on the Google Enterprise Blog www.officialroyalwedding2011.org

receptionMaid of HonourGoogle Site SearchPosted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager

Got ideas? We're listening.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Posted by: Kelly Fee, Associate, Consumer Operations

Drag and drop search for Go Daddy websites

Monday, January 10, 2011

Wouldn't it be nice to just drag and drop a Custom Search box onto a website?

We thought so, and so did Go Daddy, the world's largest domain name registrar and top web hosting provider. Website owners using Go Daddy's WebSite Tonight product can now easily drag a search widget onto their web pages, and instantly turn on high-quality website search powered by the Custom Search platform.

WebSite Tonight is a do-it-yourself service that lets users create, design, update and publish websites without requiring any knowledge of HTML. The product offers 1,500+ design templates and enables users to very easily add widgets to their web pages. WebSite Tonight was named for its ease of use - users can create a website as quickly as one night.

Here’s how you add Custom Search to your website in WebSite Tonight:

Step 1: Select "Google Custom Search" from the list of available widgets

Step 2: Select a predefined search theme to match the style of your website

Step 3: Drag and drop the Google Custom Search box to the desired location on your website

Step 4: Search! Google search results appear within the Go Daddy website

Go Daddy also integrates with Google Webmaster Tools as part of the Google Services for Websites program. As Go Daddy automatically submits Sitemaps to Google, changes to websites are quickly discovered and indexed by Google's crawlers, thereby improving search quality on both the individual website as well as Google.com.

Ease of use plus better performance -- we like that combination. We hope you also like the concept of drag and drop search. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback.

Posted by: Radu Cornea, Software Engineer and Jae Jung, Senior Manager, New Business Development

More power to metadata

Monday, December 13, 2010

structured custom search

Sort by Attribute: order search results based on values of specific attributes

Restrict to Range: only return search results with attributes within a defined range

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mildstrictPageMaps
<PageMap>
<DataObject type="date">
<Attribute name="displaydate" value="Wednesday, August 25, 2010"/>
<Attribute name="sdate" value="20100825"/>
</DataObject>

<DataObject type="thumbnail">
<Attribute name="src" value="http://media.signonsandiego.com/img/photos/2010/08/25/635a63e9-f4a1-45aa-835a-ebee666b82e0news.ap.org_t100.jpg"/>
<Attribute name="width" value="100"/>
</DataObject>
</PageMap>

...
var options = {};
options[google.search.Search.RESTRICT_EXTENDED_ARGS] = {'sort': 'date-sdate:d:s'};
customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl('000525776413497593842:aooj-2z_jjm', options);
...
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Posted by: Anthony Francis and Roger Wang, Software Engineers

Simpler pricing for Site Search

Friday, November 12, 2010

Based on user feedback, we’ve simplified our pricing for Google Site Search, our hosted search offering for businesses and organizations that want Google-quality search on their sites without ads.

To date, we’ve charged for Google Site Search based on both the number of submitted search queries and the number of pages indexed. Our new pricing is based only on queries. It is much simpler and scales to accommodate the size of your organization.

A bonus -- as part of this change, we’ve doubled the allocation for On-Demand pages indexed per search engine.

For more details, please check our post on the Google Enterprise Blog.

Posted by: Hui Xu, Staff Software Engineer