Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager and Nicholas Weininger, Software EngineerToday, we announced Rich Snippets for Google web search, a new presentation of snippets that highlight structured data embedded in webpages. Rich Snippets provid…
Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product ManagerIf you are going to the World Wide Web conference in Madrid next week (April 20-24), make sure to attend the panel entitled “Web Search APIs: The Next Generation”. Nick Weininger from the Custom Search t…
Posted by: Radu Cornea, Software Engineer and Kevin Godzilla Lim, Technical WriterAs 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 — inc…
Posted by: Kevin Gollum Lim, Technical WriterMost people who need something just go to the store to get the item, but a number of people take the time and effort to handcraft their own stuff. They do that because they enjoy tinkering with things until …
Posted by: Radu Cornea, Software Engineer and Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product ManagerUntil today, when you wanted to add Google Custom Search to your site, you had to head directly to our Custom Search Engine site. Although creating your own Google-powe…
Posted by: Tyler Morse, Software Engineer and Dylan Casey, Product ManagerWhen we set out to build a timeline to commemorate Google’s 10th birthday, we wanted to add an experimental search feature. We may be a little biased, but because we needed to s…
Posted by: Tom Duerig and Nicholas Weininger, Software EngineersEarlier this year when we launched Google Site Search, and AdSense for Search started using the Custom Search platform, we created a special Custom Search Engine (CSE) index for enhanced i…
Posted by: Cedric Dupont, Product ManagerKnol is a project aimed at helping people share their knowledge. Knols (units of knowledge) are authoritative articles written by people about a specific subject, ranging from tooth pain to solar energy to butte…
Posted by: Victor Wang and Bartlomiej Niechwiej, Software EngineersWith our launch of Google Site Search, we added a new feature to the Custom Search platform: custom synonyms. Here’s how this feature can be used to improve the quality of your Custom S…
Posted by: Kevin Gargoyle Lim, Technical WriterWe’ve updated the developer guide to include the more advanced Custom Search features, such as synonym expansion and integration with Subscribed Links. These features let you trick out your search engine a…
Posted by: Mark Lucovsky, Software EngineerOne of the most exciting things happening with our APIs is the clever use of Custom Search engines (CSEs), blended results, and innovative uses of UI components, resulting in rich user experiences. I’d like t…
Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager and John Skidgel, Senior Interaction DesignerIf you’ve been to the 2008 Summer Games site that we created to help you stay updated on the happenings in Beijing this month, you’ll notice a Custom Search …
Posted by: Kevin Grendelzilla Lim, Technical WriterWe created a new developer guide from scratch and moved it to code.google.com, where many other API documents reside. This means that the bells and whistles of Google Code are available to the Custom S…
Posted by: Vrishali Wagle and Tom Duerig, Software EngineersSince the launch of Custom Search, we’ve seen more and more webmasters, publishers and organizations enable high-quality search engines on their web sites and blogs to help their users find wh…
Posted by: Ryan Pollock, Product MarketingI recently met with Adam Gross, VP of Developer Relations at Salesforce.com, to hear how developer.salesforce.com uses Google Custom Search. The company is building a community and knowledge base for developer…