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 …
November 1st, 2006 | by A Googler | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: R.V. Guha, Tech Lead and Patrick Riley, Software EngineerWelcome to the Google Custom Search blog. This is where we aim to share our news, along with your ideas and expertise — whether you are a sole proprietor or part of an organization or…