Build Your Own Google-Powered Search Engine 68
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."
Will create a lot more spam sites? (Score:5, Interesting)
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From the article... (Score:5, Informative)
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The URL is here: http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=00677555525115800612 2%3Anxp0gaipa40 [google.com]
Current sites include:
en.wikipedia.org, www.answers.c
as long as the user understands the biases (Score:3, Insightful)
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!
Rollyo.com (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Rollyo.com limit of 25 sites (Score:1)
I've just created a really quick and dirty Google custom search with 249 Toronto Photoblogs (shamless plug http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=0065093496128235 88935%3Ahixzfwm7k6y [google.com] ) in about a total of 5 minutes. Sure I need to make the page look pretty, etc... but WOW it was ea
sounds like htdig (Score:1)
Live.com's Macros? (Score:1)
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Even if a small-ish site does have some native search capability, the odds ar
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This is great! (Score:1)
Opting out of the AdSense requirement? (Score:1)
Could a site simply declare itself a not-for-profit operation, and opt-out of the AdSense requirement? Or is Google going to require 501(c)(3) certification or some similar legal status?
Not just about AdSense (Score:2, Insightful)
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
Great for reviews (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm currently working on my own version that searches through review sites based on a whitelist approach of only approved sites here [google.com]. 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.
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site: anyone? (Score:1, Insightful)
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See also -inurl:(foo|bar|baz) as used to great effect by Give Me Back My Google [givemebackmygoogle.com].
To be fair, this new service is a much better way of going about these things.
More "Scraping" (Score:4, Insightful)
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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Google is compensating you, instead, by driving people to your site. From there, the task of making money
experts-exchange.com (Score:5, Interesting)
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I'm looking forward to it too. It really annoys me when that site shows up when I'm looking for Expert Sex Change..
Give power back to the website owner (Score:2)
For Desktops? (Score:3, Insightful)
Sounds like Macros from windows live search (Score:2, Insightful)
Google made MS 'innovate', MS made Google 'innovate'.
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Here is the Live Search [live.com]'s Macro site for those who don't know:
Live Search Macros [live.com]
Social Search (Score:1)
I just set gave this a try this morning... (Score:2)
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Attempt for Slashdot comments (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Slashsearch.org (Score:2)
Wait, I guess I can
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Email me at slashsearch@tarponcreek.com if that is easier than slashdot comments threads for support.
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
From the article: "During the development of Mac OS X, Apple polished the existing
slashdot.org/apple/ - Similar pages
Tuning domain specific search without upfront cost (Score:3, Insightful)
Brilliant, fucking brilliant!
Sample (Score:3, Interesting)
Terrible Terms of Service (Score:4, Interesting)
Will it search members-only forums? (Score:3, Interesting)
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It works almost the same as doing a search like "site:slashdot.org se7en11 [google.com]" except you specify the sites automaticly and you can include the results on your site.
"Desktop" version (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Yahoo! (Score:2, Interesting)
my experiment (Score:2)
Only Quotes [onlyquotes.net] is a search engine that searches a ton of quotation sites. It's fast -- much faster than any of the 20 or so websites it searches -- and it doesn't return any spam links or links to quotation sites that are slow or low quality.
I think the custom search engine program has a lot of potential for domains that have a relatively small number of high-quality sites, and for which the normal google search is too contaminated with seo-ified crap and commercial junk (which is unfortunately more and mor