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Build Your Own Google-Powered Search Engine
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."
Sounds like a fantastic product for people who have a legitimate use for it. However, I wonder how many additional 'all spam' sites will be created as a result (e.g. those that have no content other than google ads, links to paid advertisements, etc.).
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To enroll in the Google Custom Search Engine program, go to www.google.com/coop/cse/
To a user it can be useful: it allows for a focused search. Say you're an industrial engineer and want to constrain your search to a topic. But what's critical to the credibility of google is a way for the user to *know* the biases before using the engine!
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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If you look at the example given in the article, it says:
So am I the only one who sees how Google can also apply this to ranking websites within their index?
Trying to find reviews of stuff is a real pita on any search engine, you'll usually come up with "buy it for $$$" results. Even if you used all the necessary search filters in google like "-buy -purchase -stock" etc you'd still end up with annoying shop stuff.
I'm currently working on my own version that searches through review sites based on a whitelist approach of only approved sites here. If people want to give me some help on this i'd appreciate it, that way we can filter out all of the spam sites and focus instead on only the good stuff.
Although in the minority I'm sure, I look at Google as the largest scraper of content there is. If you think about it, they give users snippets of your original content and then take that content and use it to deliver targeted advertisements before the user even clicks on your content.
Now, enter the same business model, add some revenue sharing and a whole bunch of smaller players with their own domains armed with CSS stylized IFRAMES and you will see the "authoritative portal/directory sites" grow pretty quickly. As someone who creates his own unique content (with no ads currently), moves like this do make me think twice about the future of search and creating content for other people to scrape and profit from. Sure, I understand the point of "without the search engine no one would ever find my site", but at some point content creators have to worry about others profiting off their efforts (/end violin playing).
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Maybe now I can finally make it to stop showing me results from experts-exchange.com when I'm looking for tutorials!
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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.
It would be nice to be able to use this kind of customizability for desktop search.
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I attempted to create one specific to Slashdot comments. I don't like Slashdot's built in search for anything but articles. Unfortunately slashdot blocks the indexing of pages at /comments.pl (probably to prevent duplicate content, thereby helping their SEO). But it does work well for my site documenting the best Slashdot comments. So please give it a try and let me know what you think. What I'd really like to know is if it's worth adding slashdot's article URLs even though it'll then search the summary's text as well. Also if there are any other sites which should be included.
I tried the site integration code but the search form submission seems to conflict with my CMS. So a custom page outside the execution of a CMS may be required for some sites.
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Google will be able to harness people's specific expertise to fine tune google's domain specific search, without signing any contract with anybody. That means less administrative and financial commitment, less legal headache, and less legal fees. And because of the adsense program, Google only pay, when Google got payed.
Brilliant, fucking brilliant!
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Here is a sample installation. Use the search box at the top.
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does site: let you search more than one site?
The Terms of Service are terrible. Section 1.5 says that Google is your exclusive search service. No offering Google and Windows Live to your users. Maybe no providing your own htdig service. It's Google or nothing. Of course, section 1.2 is the ever popular, "we can change this at any time without notifying you, and if you keep using the service you agree to the new terms without even knowing they exist." Of course, these are basically the same terms that Google Free offered. It's really frustrating; I'd like to use Google Search to give visitors to my job's web site a better search engine, but those terms aren't reasonable for a business.
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I belong to a few forums that require member registration to browse. As a result, you can't use google normally to search the forum. Can this be used or would it make the information be publicly available?
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I would love to see a "desktop" version of this - i.e. something that can work inside a browser with a plugin or something. In fact, it could probably be done with Greasemonkey...
Imagine being able to type in "NEC 40xx review" and have all the pointless price comparison and fake review sites filters from your results automatically.
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I believe Yahoo! has had something like this for awhile: http://builder.search.yahoo.com/