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Build Your Own Google-Powered Search Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-goog-to-call-my-own dept.

eastbayted writes "Google has unveiled a free program called Google Customized Search Engine that lets users tailor a search index to their content specifications, InfoWorld reports. You can select keywords for the index, as well as which Web sites will be included or excluded in the search. You also may customize the look and feel of the engine. The trade-off? When you implement the index on your Web site or blog, it will be populated with Google text ads via Google's lucrative AdSense Program. On the plus side, you do get paid for click-throughs."

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  1. From the article... by bazorg · · Score: 5, Informative

    To enroll in the Google Custom Search Engine program, go to www.google.com/coop/cse/

  2. Rollyo.com by crazyjeremy · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a little site out there called Rollyo or Roll Your Own. It works similarly to this and has been around a while. http://www.rollyo.com/

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  3. Re:Kind of redundant by kurtis25 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The goal is to search more than one site: Ie on kurist25.com (not a real site) you can use this to search digg.com, slashdot.com & fark.com and monster.com, (now that you wasted all your time at work and lost your job) by using one search box and having Google style results. It solves the problem of needing to use the site: function on sites whose search is worthless, (foxnews.com). This tool would have saved my time in College and grad school I used the same dozen or so sites for all my research (sorry library you loose) and wasted much time switching back and forth between their search results. Using this I can create my list and do one search and get my results. I can easily share and apparently rate them. Since many of my fellow students used the same sites the group functions would be useful and so would the labels. This will be a powerful tool for the right people especially in the education and research fields. With the right setup it could be used to prevent search results that end the websense screen of oppression (by oppression I mean safety and healthy work environment). If I restrict the results to exclude those sites search results will be more useful.

  4. Re:Will create a lot more spam sites? by bshver · · Score: 4, Informative
    Google requires only a modicum of content before approving a site to show AdSense ads
    Actually, Google already doesn't require any content at all before setting up an ad site if you use their AdSense for Domains service. This has been around for several years according to the FAQ, so I don't think a new search service is going to change much with respect to sites that do nothing but serve ads.
  5. Re:Sounds like Macros from windows live search by Utopia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats what I was thinking too.

    Here is the Live Search's Macro site for those who don't know:
    Live Search Macros