March 21st, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Matt Wytock, Software EngineerWe’ve just added the ability to show popular queries for your Custom Search Engine, so that your users can see what others have been searching for on your site. Popular queries are updated daily, and the code sn…
March 6th, 2007 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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 …
February 26th, 2007 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
February 21st, 2007 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
February 14th, 2007 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
January 22nd, 2007 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
January 10th, 2007 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
December 12th, 2006 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
December 6th, 2006 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
November 21st, 2006 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
November 16th, 2006 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
November 12th, 2006 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
November 8th, 2006 | by Jennifer Hyman | published in Google Custom Search
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…
November 6th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Vrishali Wagle, Software EngineerLast week, Ethan Zuckerman wrote a great article explaining why Custom Search Engines would be so useful for communities such as the Global Voices network. He built a CSE to search over 3000 blogs from across…
November 4th, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by Paul Komarek, Software EngineerSince we introduced it last week, people have created many thousands of Custom Search Engines (CSEs). We all have our personal favorites (mine is the Costume Search Engine–for the name alone), but it’s hard to …