One of the most requested features for Custom Search is autocompletion of queries. Today, we announced at Google I/O that you can now enable query autocompletions for your search engine.The screenshot below shows an example of query autocompletion at …
The just-released Adobe® Creative Suite 5 (CS5) now includes a new Community Help application, powered by Google Site Search. It’s an Adobe AIR®-based companion that’s automatically installed as part of any new Adobe CS5 product.Launched directly…
The just-released Adobe® Creative Suite 5 (CS5) now includes a new Community Help application, powered by Google Site Search. It’s an Adobe AIR®-based companion that’s automatically installed as part of any new Adobe CS5 product.Launched directly…
Website owners who use Parallels Plesk Panel to manage their hosting and website services can now configure Custom Search and Site Search in a couple of clicks! As announced on the Google Blog, Plesk now offers out-of-box integration with Google Servi…
Website owners who use Parallels Plesk Panel to manage their hosting and website services can now configure Custom Search and Site Search in a couple of clicks! As announced on the Google Blog, Plesk now offers out-of-box integration with Google Servi…
Since the launch of Custom Search, we’ve been constantly pushing the customization envelope — allowing users to tweak ranking, provide refinements, add promotions above results, change the look and feel, select from themes and modify layouts.We did no…
Since the launch of Custom Search, we’ve been constantly pushing the customization envelope — allowing users to tweak ranking, provide refinements, add promotions above results, change the look and feel, select from themes and modify layouts.We did no…
The Custom Search team is always working to provide more relevant results, and improving user queries is a big part of that goal. We’ve shown you how to create refinement labels for queries and create custom synonyms for your search engine. We have bee…
The Custom Search team is always working to provide more relevant results, and improving user queries is a big part of that goal. We’ve shown you how to create refinement labels for queries and create custom synonyms for your search engine. We have bee…
With the launch of Custom Search themes, you have the ability to select from among a set of result styles, as well as decide on the layout for the search box and search results. Specifically, we offer commonly-used layouts: full-width (search box and s…
If you programmatically create and manage custom search engines, you are probably familiar with the XML format for Custom Search. The context file, which includes the specifications for the search engine, now has a richer look and feel section that let…
Most Custom Search users choose to deploy a customized search experience on their own websites, using the inline Custom Search Element or an embedded iframe. However, some users choose to use the home page that we create automatically for every search …
The Custom Search team has had a busy 2009. This is the year we turned 3. And now Custom Search is powering many tens of millions of queries a day on millions of small and large websites. We believe that search should be easy to deploy on your website,…
We recently announced support for mobile Custom Search for high-end devices like Android-powered phones, iPhone, iPod touch, and Palm Pre. If you use Custom Search, your visitors can now search your website from these mobile devices. Mobile users will…
Last Friday was the third anniversary of Custom Search! Here’s a photo of our celebratory cake, baked by John Skidgel, our multitalented Senior Interaction Designer. Our cake was baked in between code reviews for our brand new Look and Feel tab. The ma…