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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…

Besides great results relevance, one of the most popular features of Custom Search is the ability for you to customize the look and feel of the results to match your website. Our users have always requested more control over results presentation. What’…

Earlier this year, we announced support for Rich Snippets in Custom Search results. If you provide in-page metadata markup, via RDFa, Microformats, or PageMaps, the Custom Search platform extracts the metadata attributes and returns these as PageMaps …

Wikipedia users can now configure a Custom Search skin to customize their Wikipedia search experience. Once configured, the skin helps you to search Wikipedia, and for contextually relevant articles, from any Wikipedia page. This can make it easier to …

Google Custom Search makes it easy for web site owners to add Google-powered search boxes to their sites. Since a rapidly growing percentage of web search traffic originates from smartphones, we’re pleased to announce that Google Custom Search now for…

In our recent Product Ideas survey, one of the most-requested features was about enabling a mobile version of Custom Search. Guess what: It’s here! As announced on the Google Mobile blog, Custom Search now enables a rich interactive mobile experience o…

Google Sites offers users a very simple way to create and publish web sites. Multiple users can collaborate to manage website content as well as add various gadgets into their websites. Google Sites now allows the addition of Google Custom Search as a …

Posted by: Christine Moschella, Online OperationsYour feedback is one of the most important things we consider when planning updates and improvements to Google Custom Search. In addition to reviewing the feedback and suggestions that you make in our us…

Posted by: Jeff Scudder, Developer Programs EngineerCreating a custom look and feel for your website can have significant benefits in everything from improving usability to setting a professional or playful tone for your website. In many cases, letting…

Posted by: Christine Moschella, Online OperationsA few weeks ago, we announced support for transliteration in Custom Search in a bunch of languages, including Arabic and a set of Indic languages. The auto-transliteration feature allows your users to co…

Posted by: Radu Cornea, Software EngineerEarlier this year, we made it easier to add high quality search to your websites by delivering search functionality right to where many of you manage your sites online: your hoster’s console. The Custom Search p…

Posted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product ManagerHere’s the presentation on Advanced Custom Search Configuration from Google I/O. You can navigate it with the help of a convenient timeline at YouTube, or download the presentation in PDF format. The tal…

Posted by: Mohamed Elfeky and Adel Youssef, Software EngineersTyping is harder in some languages than others! When you’re searching for content in a specific language, it is often convenient to think in that language, but type in another, e.g., English…

Posted by: Nicholas Weininger, Software EngineerCustom Search enables anyone to create a tuned search experience that’s contextually relevant. For example:Individuals can create a personalized search experience around their bookmarks, blogs, and public…