Posted by: Jennifer Hyman, Product Marketing ManagerIn tandem with the search results branding changes, we’ve just updated and implemented new search box branding for CSEs as well. You can now select from 7 different search box branding options to fit …
Posted by: Jennifer Hyman, Product Marketing ManagerIn our constant quest to simplify things, we’ve made a small, but important change to the language you see from Google on Custom Search Engine search results pages. Now, instead of the long string o…
Posted by: Patrick Riley, Software EngineerOne of the common uses of Custom Search Engines is to provide site search. A number of users have suggested that we can improve Custom Search for this application by also including supplemental results in Cust…
Posted by: Mike Cancel, Community ManagerSince it launched in October, we’ve been pleasantly surprised by the nice ecosystem that has built up around Custom Search Engines. Here are some of the more interesting resources we’ve found outside Google that…
Posted by: Matt Wytock, Software EngineerWe’ve added a new statistics page so you can see what people are searching for on your Custom Search Engine — information such as overall traffic to your search engine and popular queries is now available. And…
Posted by: Jennifer Hyman, Product Marketing ManagerYou may have been wondering how your CSE is performing and how it compares to those other people are creating. The first step in sharing Custom Search metrics with you is the Most Popular list of Cu…
Posted by: Vrishali Wagle, Software EngineerWe’ve made several improvements to the Custom Search collaboration process. Starting today, you’ll be able to communicate more easily with new volunteers for your Custom Search Engine — you’ll see the email…
Posted by: Matt Wytock, Software EngineerMany of you have complained about the extra white space at the bottom of the Custom Search results hosted on your page. We’ve heard you, and have rolled out a fix for better integration between your search engin…
Posted by: Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Software EngineerIt has always been our goal to enable anyone, anywhere create a Custom Search Engine. We’re pleased to announce that we’re getting closer to that goal. As of today, you can now create a Custom Search En…
Posted by: Vrishali Wagle, Software EngineerA number of you have asked for the ability to specify entire domains (such as all the hosts that are part of stanford.edu or all the sites under ca.gov) in your CSEs so that you can more easily build a compre…
Posted by: Nikki Pfarr, User Experience DesignerYou’ve given us some great feedback so far on the Custom Search Engine (CSE). In particular, many of you have requested more sophisticated examples of existing CSEs, so you can learn from and reference th…
Posted by: Nick Weininger, Co-op EngineerMany of you have told us that it would be useful to be able to add Subscribed Links to your Custom Search Engines (CSEs). That way, you could include all sorts of real-time status data and helpful answers in you…