tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367034062024-03-05T22:31:20.179-08:00Custom Search EngineUpdates and tips from the Google Custom Search team.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-33031901542371766922019-07-10T11:28:00.000-07:002019-07-10T11:28:01.376-07:00Bringing the Power of Knowledge Graph to Custom Search<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We're happy to announce that Custom Search Engine (CSE) owners can now use <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html" target="_blank">Knowledge Graph</a> entities to configure their CSE. The Knowledge Graph (KG) is used by <a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Search</a> to help users discover information more quickly and easily, and contains millions of entries that describe real-world entities like people, places, and things.<br />
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CSE owners can use KG Entities to<br />
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<li>Define which pages the CSE searches</li>
<li>Create <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4542637" target="_blank">Refinements</a> to narrow down search results within a CSE.</li>
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For more information about using Knowledge Graph Entities to define and refine your Custom Search Engine, visit our <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/9350760" target="_blank">developer documentation</a>.<br />
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Here are some examples of what you can do:<br />
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Searching the entire web for specific Entities</h2>
CSE's KG Entity support makes it easy to search the entire web for pages (or images) about specific topics.<br />
We've configured <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:b2bhygxt4le" target="_blank">this CSE</a> to search the entire web for pages about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.#Structure" target="_blank">Alphabet</a> companies, using the CSE control panel as shown below:<br />
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Try out the CSE here: <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:b2bhygxt4le">https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:b2bhygxt4le</a><br />
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Searching specific pages for Entities</h2>
Instead of searching the entire web, you can combine KG entities with CSE's existing <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4513886" target="_blank">site search</a> functionality.<br />
For example, we've configured <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:x1jaj-jlc3e" target="_blank">this CSE</a> to search Wikipedia for pages about the entity Pittsburgh:<br />
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Try out the CSE here: <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:x1jaj-jlc3e">https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:x1jaj-jlc3e</a><br />
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Defining Refinements with Entities</h2>
CSE's <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4542637" target="_blank">refinements</a> feature allows users to drill down into their search results. Now, CSE owners can use KG entities to define the refinements if their CSE.<br />
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For example, we defined <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:-nzsrilglze" target="_blank">this CSE</a> to be about the Knowledge Graph Entity "basketball":<br />
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Then we add refinements for basketball subtopics, like the NBA, WNBA, College, Olympic basketball, and basketball gear. For example, this refinement returns pages that are about both Basketball (from the top-level CSE definition) and Sports Equipment, Shoes, or Jerseys:<br />
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Try out the CSE here: <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:-nzsrilglze">https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=000888210889775888983:-nzsrilglze</a><br />
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-32975841568151820562019-06-24T13:23:00.004-07:002019-06-24T13:32:16.843-07:00Introducing Callbacks for even more rendering control<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For our power users that are interested in customizing the rendering of search results beyond what is possible through our standard controls in the Custom Search Engine control panel, we are introducing a new set of Callback functions that will unlock new capabilities to customize your search result rendering even further.<br />
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Callbacks provide an opportunity to customize the experience during the rendering flow of the search results in powerful new ways. We are introducing callbacks for when the search begins, when the results are ready, and when the results are rendered. If you would like to augment your results with additional information or increased interactivity, callbacks provide an easy way to build on top of the already existing customizations you have for Custom Search Engine.<br />
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Please note that this feature only applies to the Custom Search Element API of the Custom Search Engine. These Callbacks are not applicable to the JSON API of the Custom Search Engine. Also, these callbacks only modify the organic search results; they do not modify any of the advertising or the rendering of the advertising returned from the Custom Search Element API.<br />
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Learn how to use these new functions in the <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element#search-time-callbacks" target="_blank">Search Callbacks</a> section of the Custom Search Element API for more details.<br />
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We are excited to see what new customizations our vibrant and creative publisher ecosystem will bring to Customized Search Engines with these new callbacks.<br />
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We would like to hear your feedback and comments on this new functionality. We invite you to share your thoughts in our <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/thread/8639981" target="_blank">user forum</a>.<br />
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The Google Custom Search Engine Team<br />
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-36202572515822024062019-04-22T13:13:00.000-07:002019-04-22T13:25:54.523-07:00Improving our mobile layout<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We are pleased to announce a new mobile layout that should provide an improved experience for mobile device users. We’ve changed the look of the search box and refinements, increased the size of the thumbnails, and simplified the pagination.</div>
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Most of these changes only affect mobile devices, but the refinements have also been updated for desktop.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The mobile-specific changes can be optionally disabled by setting the "mobileLayout" <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element#supported_attributes" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">attribute</a> of the search element to “disabled”.</span></div>
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-17528430133547830582018-07-16T13:58:00.000-07:002018-07-16T13:58:00.634-07:00Expanding our Custom Search Engine offerings.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We are excited to announce an expansion of our Custom Search Engine offerings. We offer the following implementation options for Custom Search Engine.<br />
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<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element">Standard Search Element</a> - This free, ads supported search element is easily added to your site with simple javascript, is available for everyone, and has no daily query limit.</li>
<li><a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4542102">Nonprofit Search Element</a> - This free search element is available for non-profit groups (such as charities, schools, and governments), and is similar to the Standard Search Element but does not have advertising.</li>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/overview">JSON API</a> - This API costs $5 per thousand queries, allows programmatic access, and does not have advertising or Google branding. However, this API is limited to 10,000 queries per day.</li>
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Today, we are excited to add a fourth implementation option.<br />
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<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/site_restricted_api" target="_blank">Site Restricted JSON API</a> - This API is similar to the JSON API above, but there is no daily query cap for Custom Search Engines that search 10 sites or fewer.</li>
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Learn more about how to use the <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/site_restricted_api">Site Restricted JSON API from the developer site</a>, or learn more about the <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/9069107">differences between these offerings</a> to help select the implementation option that works best for you.</div>
Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-51340625425599296592017-07-26T13:47:00.000-07:002017-07-26T13:47:10.513-07:00Improving our offering for Nonprofits and Schools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you are a nonprofit or a school looking for high quality, customizable search experiences for your site, organization, or school, we are excited to announce that Custom Search Engine is now integrating with Google For Nonprofits, <a href="https://www.google.com/nonprofits/">https://www.google.com/nonprofits/</a>, and with Google For Education, <a href="https://edu.google.com/products/productivity-tools/">https://edu.google.com/products/productivity-tools/</a>, to offer Custom Search Engine for free without advertising. Learn how to sign up for these programs in our <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4542102?hl=en">help center</a>.</div>
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-47417614542149274392017-02-16T11:49:00.000-08:002017-02-16T18:13:26.252-08:00Refocusing and looking forward on Custom Search Engine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have several important announcements that may affect your Custom Search Engine or may require you to make changes to your Custom Search Engine. Please read this post carefully. </span></div>
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<a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/linked_cse" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linked CSE</span></a></div>
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-67151841826642325372014-03-24T01:28:00.000-07:002014-03-24T01:28:46.337-07:00Create a search engine with schema.org types<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are happy to announce the integration of Google Custom Search with the schema.org standard. <a href="http://schema.org/">Schema.org</a> is a structured data markup schema including a shared markup schema vocabulary that is supported by major search providers. This integration enables you to create powerful and expressive topical search engines by simply specifying schema.org types in your Google Custom Search Engine definition. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; white-space: pre-wrap;">How would you go about using this new feature? Say you are the webmaster of a site about movies. You might want to create a movie search engine that can search for pages about movies either from your website, your affiliated websites or from the millions of sites that use schema.org. Achieving this functionality is now only a click away thanks to the integration of Google Custom Search with schema.org. All you have to do is add the schema type “Movie” to your Custom Search Engine definition, as shown below, and you’re done! Users of your movie search engine will then only see result pages that have the “Movie” schema annotation.</span></div>
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-82166893709473221722013-12-10T06:27:00.000-08:002013-12-10T06:27:32.331-08:00Use your expertise - build a topical search engine<br />
Did you know that a topical search engine can help your users find content from more than a single domain? You can use your expertise to provide a delightful user experience targeting a particular topic on the Web.<br />
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There are two main types of engines built with Google Custom Search: site search and topical search. While site search is relatively straightforward - it lets you implement a search for a blog or a company website - topical search is an entirely different story.<br />
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Topical search engines focus on a particular topic and therefore usually cover a part of the Web that is larger than a single domain. Because of this topical engines need to be carefully fine-tuned to bring the best results to the users.<br />
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A nice example of a topical search engine is <a href="https://kritikos.liv.ac.uk/about/">Kritikos</a> - a search engine for visual media relevant to higher education developed by the Engineering Department at <a href="http://liv.ac.uk/">Liverpool University</a>. Developed in its pilot phase exclusively for Engineering students, Kritikos is now able to add new academic subjects simply by changing one line of code in the API call.<br />
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Kritikos is using a mix of Custom Search tuning techniques to find the most relevant results and then matches the results with the data stored in the local node of the <a href="http://learningregistry.org/">Learning Registry</a>. The additional data is displayed as an overlay in the search results page, providing valuable reference for the engine’s users. This method allows Kritikos to also include a social mechanism into their results - e.g. it is able to show users votes or comments about the usefulness of particular resources. Here is what Andrew Green, the Technical Director of Kritikos from the University of Liverpool says about the project. <br />
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In developing Kritikos, we wanted to build upon existing search engines, rather than try and build our own. We discovered that, once we found the documentation, the Google Custom Search Engine API was incredibly easy to use. The call to the API, based on the user’s subject of interest, search terms and preferred media type, is constructed in only a dozen lines of code. The resulting JSON data was easily parsed in order to generate the thumbnail images that give Kritikos its visual impact. </blockquote>
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This shows the first 3 results for the term query term “fracture”, as seen by an Engineering student. The icons in the top right corners indicate that other students have interacted with these resources in some way.</blockquote>
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Here are the results for the same search term (“fracture”), this time as viewed by a Medical student.<br />
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You can read more about their adventures with Custom Search on the <a href="http://engrich.liv.ac.uk/index.php/blog/">project’s blog</a>.<br />
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From talking to developers working with Custom Search and looking at different engines out there on the Web, I learned a few trends present in many of the solutions. Here they are - a few things to keep in mind when building a topical search engine.<br />
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There is a lot of mess on the Internet. You don’t want to distract your users and make them spend time on random sites. The point of making a topical search engine is to make it focused and targeted. <br />
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An index is a list of sites - or <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/71826?hl=en">url patterns</a> - that your engine is operating on. Choosing what should go into the engine’s index and what should be left out is a matter of expected quality. Sometimes even sites that are on topic can be left out of the index or de-prioritized in order to promote other content, that you - the author of the engine - consider more valuable to your users. </div>
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The usability rule - <i>Don’t make me think</i> - plays nicely with topical search engines. You build the engine to make your users life easier, finding the information faster and more efficient. Usually your engine is functioning in some particular context - it is included in a topical website, it is addressed to some specific audience etc. You can apply this context to the search process, to make your users more productive and happier with the experience. There are a number of techniques that allow you to add context to your users’ queries - for details check out the <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/topical">Topical CSE</a> article on Google Developers site.</div>
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Search does not need to be boring. You can add all sorts of fireworks to your search results - custom design, non-linear browsing experience, user interactions or displaying additional data. <br />
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<a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/getting-started-with-structured-data.html">Structured data</a> is gaining more and more momentum on the Web. It is a way of expressing real-world concepts in a machine-readable format - for example information about places, events, businesses etc. It already powers some of Google’s products and features, like <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en">Rich snippets</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html">Knowledge Graph panels</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/landing/now/">Google Now</a> cards. <br />
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You can harness the power of structured data in a topical search engine by filtering results by a <a href="http://schema.org/">schema.org</a> types and properties or creating your own custom rich snippets. <br />
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In the Advanced Topics section of <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search">developer’s documentation</a>, you can find an article about creating a <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/topical">Topical CSE</a>. It describes in more detail the techniques needed to obtain the results discussed in this blog post. <br />
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If you have an interesting topical search engine and would like to share it, give us a shout at twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/googlecse">@googlecse</a>, we’d love to see what you came up with. Happy coding!<br />
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Custom Search provides upto 5000 URL patterns to define a “slice” of the web to search over. However, if you’re creating a Custom Search Engine on a topic, such as “global warming”, finding more than a few good sites for a topic can be hard. We recently launched <a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.in/2013/09/have-cse-to-search-over-your-favorite.html" target="_blank">suggested sites</a> to help suggest more sites for your search engine similar to your included sites.<br />
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Today, we’re introducing another tool that is hopefully intuitive as well as interesting : You can discover hundreds of sites to include in your CSE starting just with keywords! For example, for a CSE on “global warming”, adding keywords like [pollution], [global warming] and [greenhouse effect] can lead you to discover global warming related sites within minutes.<br />
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This tool attempts to combine Google’s knowledge with the topic expertise you have - Google suggests sites, but you can control the topic expansion, and guide the tool towards your topic in a fine grained way.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.google.com/cse/create/fromkwsetname" target="_blank">tool</a> is accessible off of the <a href="http://www.google.com/cse/create/new" target="_blank">New Search Engine</a> page on the Custom Search control panel. Give the tool a whirl, see more details on how the tool works in our <a href="https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/3427771?hl=en&ctx=topic&topic=0000" target="_blank">documentation</a>, and let us know what you think on the<a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/customsearch" target="_blank"> product forum</a>.<br />
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<span class="byline-author" style="color: #666666;">Posted by: Vivek Sahasranaman, Custom Search Team</span><br />
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<span class="byline-author" style="color: #666666;"><b style="color: black;">Update</b><span style="color: black;">: </span><i style="color: black;">As of October 2015 this feature is no longer available.</i></span></div>
Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-74435877977698737742013-09-12T01:31:00.001-07:002015-10-26T11:57:09.865-07:00Suggested sites for CSEs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have a CSE to search over your favorite topic (e.g. cars)? Here is a new feature to help you expand your CSE’s definition. This feature recommends more url patterns relevant to the ones you already have in your search engine. We also provide a set of sample pages for each of the recommended patterns.</span><br />
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-13359713020129102292013-03-13T06:00:00.000-07:002013-09-12T01:34:08.281-07:00A new look for Custom Search control panel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.06045545358210802" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re excited to announce a new, modern design for the control panel in keeping with </span><a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-look-for-custom-search-results-plus.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">prior user experience changes</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to Custom Search. You’ll also find a more intuitive layout to the various controls and configuration options. While configuring a Custom Search Engine, you can immediately view and test your work within the control panel. </span></span></b></div>
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Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-33442505365250129282013-01-16T05:40:00.000-08:002013-01-16T05:40:51.483-08:00A simple, yet powerful custom search engine Simplicity and speed are two principles we love when it comes to design at Google. Today, we’re excited to announce the new CSE layout that displays results in an overlay, on top of any content on your page.
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What this means for developers:
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<li>Takes seconds to create. We simplified the creation interface to get you going faster.</li>
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<li>Powerful features now come by default: autocomplete, image thumbnails and results sorting.</li>
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What this means for your users:
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<li>Faster, more simple search means more chances for your users to discover great content from your site.</li>
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You may visit <a href="http://www.w3schools.com" target="_blank">W3Schools</a> to see the new layout in action or use the CSE below which searches our blog.
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(function() {
var cx = '002090398082492286399:d3qpn_re4yq';
var gcse = document.createElement('script'); gcse.type = 'text/javascript';
gcse.async = true;
gcse.src = (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:') +
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var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);
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<a href="http://www.google.com/cse/manage/create" target="_blank">Try out the new layout</a> by creating a new search engine. It takes less than a minute. Once you have your search engine snippet ready, simply paste it on your website.
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<span class="byline-author">Posted by Manolis Kounelakis and Neelesh Bodas, Custom Search team</span>
</p>Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-59490373402822018282012-08-03T09:13:00.000-07:002012-08-03T09:13:47.673-07:00Introducing Custom Search Element v2<a href="http://google.com/cse">Custom Search Engine</a> (CSE) allows you to incorporate rich search functionality into your website. You do this by adding specific HTML markup - known as the Custom Search element - to web pages on your site. The Custom Search element renders a search experience (search boxes and results pages) on your site’s pages. By controlling the placement of the Custom Search element on your pages and configuring your CSE settings, you can create customized layouts that are tuned for the look-and-feel of your website.
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We’re happy to announce today a new, improved version of the Custom Search element. Here are some of the key highlights and improvements of what we call Custom Search element v2.
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<li>Search UI is rendered based on the settings stored on the Google CSE servers. This means that any configuration changes you make in the CSE control panel will automatically be reflected on your web pages the next time they reload. You no longer need to copy-and-paste new element code into your website when you modify your CSE using the control panel.</li>
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<li>Client-side customization allows you to overwrite global CSE settings on a per-page basis. For example, you can enable search history, disable auto search on page load, configure different Google Analytics parameters, and more. Customization is done through an easy-to-use <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/widgets#customizing">HTML syntax</a> which does not require any Javascript knowledge.</li>
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To start using Custom Search element v2 on your website, go to the “Get code” section of the CSE control panel and follow the instructions shown there.
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We’ll continue to support older versions of the Custom Search element for the time being but encourage you to update your CSE implementation to take advantage of the improvements.
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Posted by Ying Huang, Software EngineerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-14718979102368809042012-06-15T13:19:00.000-07:002012-06-15T13:19:05.638-07:00Ads background colors in Custom SearchAs we continue to improve the <a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-look-for-custom-search-results-plus.html">look and feel</a> of Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), today we’re announcing a change in how ads are displayed on CSE search results pages.
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Currently ads in CSE results are shown in a separate section from organic search results labeled “Ads by Google”. With this latest change, the ads section will also have a distinct background color, in keeping with the visual style of ads on the <a href="http://google.com/">google.com</a> search results page.
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Because CSE allows you to choose from one of several <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/ui#overview_howto">built-in styles</a>, the ads background color is different for each style to contrast in a visually appealing way with the default background color. (Note that if you customize the main background color, the ads background color will automatically match it to avoid clashing.)
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The following screenshots illustrate what a user performing a custom search on a website might see, for two of the built-in CSE styles.
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This change in design provides users another way to distinguish ads in CSE search result pages.
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CSE publishers will see these changes effective immediately. As always, please let us know any questions or feedback in our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch">discussion forum</a>.
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Posted by MyLinh Yang, Product ManagerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-18124597389332433692012-05-09T08:24:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:24:16.187-07:00Sorting and Filtering Results in Custom SearchUsing <a href="http://www.google.com/cse/">Custom Search Engine</a> (CSE), you can create rich search experiences that make it easier for visitors to find the information they’re looking for on your site. Today we’re announcing two improvements to sorting and filtering of search results in CSE.
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First, CSE now supports UI-based <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2549537">results sorting</a>, which you can enable in the Basics tab of the CSE control panel. Once you’ve updated the CSE element code on your site, a “sort by” picker will become visible at the top of the results section.
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By default CSE supports sorting by date and relevance. In the control panel, you can specify additional “sort by” keys that are based on the structure of your site’s content, giving users more options to find the results that are most relevant to them. For example, if you’ve marked up pages for <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146750">product rich snippets</a>, you could enable sorting based on price as shown below:
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Second, we’re introducing compact queries for <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_search#filter_by_attribute">filtering by attribute</a>. Currently you can issue a query like<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[more:pagemap:product-description:search more:pagemap:product-description:engine]</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
which will only show pages with a ‘product-description’ attribute that contains both ‘search’ and ‘engine’. With a compact query, you can issue the same request as:<br />
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We hope these new features help you create richer and more useful search experiences for your visitors. As always, if you have any questions or feedback please let us know via our <a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/customsearch">Help Forum</a>.
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Posted by Roger Wang, Software EngineerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-87259040320070036492012-03-12T15:52:00.000-07:002012-03-12T15:52:02.821-07:00A new look for Custom Search results plus a new search boxWe’re excited to announce that starting today, we are providing a new results style that’s more modern and streamlined, based on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/evolving-google-design-and-experience.html">evolving Google design</a> and experience across Google properties.
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This look will be the new default for new custom search engines, and admins of existing custom search engines can also choose this new style by visiting the <b>Look and feel</b> page of their CSE’s <b>control panel</b> and selecting “Default” in the <b>Choose or customize a style</b> section. The old default remains an option, but has been renamed to “Classic”.
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In addition to the new style for results, we’ve also updated the search box and made autocomplete more robust and consistent with the standard Google autocomplete. Note that this update affects all CSEs that use the Element so, in some rare cases, site owners who have made customizations to their CSE search box (or who have enabled autocomplete for their own search boxes) may need to make minor updates to accommodate the new search box’s slightly different look.
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We hope you and your visitors enjoy these updates. Let us know what you think in our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch">discussion forum</a>.
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Posted by: Dana Bright, UI DesignerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-74347236779447333562012-02-14T11:58:00.000-08:002012-02-14T11:58:49.238-08:00Image results now available from the Custom Search API<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Last year we </span><a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2011/12/image-results-for-your-custom-search.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">added image results</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"> to Google Custom Search Engines to enable sites to offer image-only results that showcase photos and other digital images. For site owners who want more flexibility in presentation, they are also now available from the </span><a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Custom Search API</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">.</span><br />
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Good news for <a href="http://www.google.com/sitesearch">Google Site Search</a> owners who manage multiple Google Site Search engines! You can now share query quota between paid GSS and free Custom Search engines.<br />
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This may be useful for you if you pay for a quota with Google Site Search and you’d like to share that quota with your Custom Search engines. To do this, add those extra engines to a “business group” to share the quota.<br />
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To add CSEs to a business group, visit the Business Group page of your GSS’s Control Panel. Click Add and you’ll see a list of the free CSEs that you own or that have been shared with you. Select the free CSEs you wish to add and click OK. All group members will immediately share the quota of your GSS.<br />
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We hope you’ll find this much easier than trying to estimate your <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72334&topic=1717074&ctx=topic">quota</a> needs for each of your individual search engines. To learn more about Business Groups, please visit our <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1733053">help center</a>. Let us know what you think in our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch">discussion forum</a>.<br />
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Posted by: Yong Zhu, Software EngineerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-78611958050011663782012-01-24T09:27:00.000-08:002012-01-24T09:27:43.242-08:00A new and easy way to add new pages to your Custom Search Engine’s index<br />
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Our users have been telling us that while they love the concept of <a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-demand-indexing-for-fast-moving-web.html">on-demand indexing</a>, manually entering URLs or keeping a Sitemap up to date is too cumbersome. A new year brings a new and improved solution. If you are a <a href="http://www.google.com/webmastertools"><span class="s1">Webmaster Tools</span></a> verified site owner and have a page that links to your site’s latest content, simply provide us with that page’s URL and we will periodically visit it to discover your site’s new content.</div>
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For example, as the owners of this blog, we can provide the URL of the blog’s landing page, googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com, to our CSE. It will then periodically visit that URL and add any new links to content on this blog to our CSE’s index. Since this URL automatically links to all new content on this blog, our CSE’s index will always automatically get updated.</div>
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You can provide a URL(s) to your CSE via the <b>URLs linked from a page</b> feature in the <b>Indexing</b> page of your CSE’s <b>Control Panel</b>. Note that this feature is only for the discovery of new content and does not refresh content that has already been indexed. </div>
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To learn more about <span class="s2">URLs linked from a page</span>, please visit our <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115957"><span class="s1">help center</span></a>. Let us know what you think in our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch"><span class="s1">discussion forum</span></a>.</div>
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Posted by: Liqian Luo, Software Engineer</div>Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-57396189216484995682012-01-13T13:56:00.000-08:002012-01-13T13:56:12.336-08:00Custom Search JavaScript API is now fully documented!The Custom Search engineers spent 2011 launching great features. But we still hear from our users that our documentation could do with improvement. We hear you. Today we’re launching some updates to our docs:<br />
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<li><strong>Comprehensive JavaScript reference for the Custom Search Element.</strong> We’ve completely overhauled our <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/js/cselement-reference.html">Custom Search Element API documentation</a> to provide a comprehensive overview of all the JavaScript methods available. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.</li>
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<li><strong>More languages.</strong> The Help Center is now available in <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=da">Danish</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=nl">Dutch</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=fi">Finnish</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=fr">French</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=de">German</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=it">Italian</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=ja">Japanese</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=no">Norwegian</a>, <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=es">Spanish</a>, and <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=sv">Swedish</a>.</li>
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<li><strong>Easier navigation and cleaner design.</strong> We’ve reorganized the Help Center to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for. Navigation is simpler and more streamlined. Individual articles have been revised and updated, and designed to be more readable.</li>
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Documentation is an ongoing effort, and we’ll be continuing to improve both our <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch">Help Center</a> and our <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch">developer documentation</a>. If you have comments or suggestions, we’d love to see them in our <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/customsearch">user forum</a>.<br />
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<span class="byline-author">Posted by: Riona MacNamara, technical writer</span>Custom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-30526425838028506642011-12-09T09:26:00.001-08:002011-12-09T11:11:53.870-08:00Improvements to AutocompleteCustom Search <a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/control-over-your-autocompletions.html">Autocompletions</a> allow you to add to the list of useful queries users see as they type in the search box. Today we are announcing two major improvements.
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<a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146941">Promotions</a> are a great way to call special attention to a result by putting it at the top of search results and making it visually distinct. Now you can choose to display them in autocomplete too. To enable this feature, simply click <b>Show promotions in autocomplete</b> in the <b>Promotions</b> section of your CSE’s <b>Control Panel</b>. Note that promotions based on <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1751252">regular expressions</a> or the <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1752923">$q variable</a> will not appear in autocomplete.
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If you’d like to have promotions that appear in autocomplete but not in search results, you can add them via the new <b>Autocomplete Promotion</b> tab of the <b>Custom Autocompletions</b> in the <b>Autocompletion</b> section of your CSE’s <b>Control Panel</b>.
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Match mode give you options for how Google displays autocompletions. The following are now available in the <b>Promotions</b> section of your CSE’s <b>Control Panel</b>. Changes to match mode will require you to update the CSE code snippet on your site.
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<li><b>Prefix</b> (default) mode matches the opening words of the user’s query: “how to bake” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.
<li><b>Ordered</b> mode doesn’t require the words to be in the opening, but their order must match the user’s query: “bake a pie” will trigger “how to bake a pie”.
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We hope these new options make autocompletions even more useful for your site. Read more about <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1727289">Promotions in Autocomplete</a> and <a href="http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1734001">Match mode</a>. Let us know what you think in our <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/customsearch">discussion forum</a>.
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Posted by: Min Zeng, Software EngineerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-1492385864362275422011-12-01T10:46:00.001-08:002011-12-15T12:21:46.105-08:00Image Results for your Custom Search EngineSince the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html">launch of Custom Search</a> in 2006, CSE has powered searches on a broad range of sites on the web. Until now, those CSEs have only returned text-based results, but in some cases images can be a much faster, easier and more visually appealing way to search. For photos-focused sites, image results are a great way to showcase your beautiful photos and help visitors to your site quickly and easily find the photos they want. We also think sites focused on news, celebrities, art and digital production assets will similarly benefit.
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Now you can add an image results tab to your CSE to offer your visitors image-only results in a variety of image-optimized presentation formats. Once you enable this feature, your CSE will have two tabs. The first has your current web search results and the second, <b>Image</b> tab, contains the image search results. Here’s an example from <a href="http://www.india-forums.com/">India-Forums.com</a>:
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Enabling image results is easy! Just visit the <b>Basics</b> page of your CSE’s Control Panel and check the <b>Enable image search</b> checkbox. You can change the layout of your image results on the <b>Look and feel</b> page.
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Once enabled, you’ll also be able to get separate image search reports from your CSE’s <b>Statistics</b> page.
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This new feature is available to all users of our Custom Search Element (you will need to Get Code and update your site). Since we are <a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/iframe-custom-search-engines-are.html">transitioning all iframe users</a> to the Element, this should be most sites. Our <a href="http://www.google.com/sitesearch">Google Site Search</a> users can also access <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/xml_results.html">Image Results via XML</a>. To learn more about Image Search for Custom Search, please <a href="http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/bin/answer.py?answer=1700011">visit our help center</a>. Let us know what you think in our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch">discussion forum</a>.
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Update: check out the New York Times <a href="http://beta620.nytimes.com/viewer/image-search/">Image Search</a> app powered by Google Custom Search.
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Posted by: Peng Zhao, Software EngineerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-40279733506056848322011-11-22T10:38:00.001-08:002011-12-01T17:07:15.584-08:00More flexibility for promotions<a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2009/05/custom-search-promotions-made-easier.html" id="internal-source-marker_0.3951717335730791">Custom Search promotions</a> enable you to put relevant information at the top of your search results for specific queries.
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<b>Promotion URL and titles based on the user’s query</b>: Instead of manually adding and maintaining a long list of similarly structured URLs and promotion titles, now you can use the $q variable in your promotion URL or title to replace it with the user’s query.</div>
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<b>Enable/disable individual promotions</b>: Manually enable or disable each promotion without affecting the others.</div>
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<b>Promotions for Custom Search engines created in AdSense</b>: Promotions now work for these CSEs (though they are still managed via the CSE’s control panel on the <a href="http://www.google.com/cse/">Google Custom Search site</a>).</div>
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We hope these new features make it easier for you to use promotions on your site. For more details and instructions, please visit our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1751252">help center</a>. Let us know what you think in our <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch">discussion forum</a>.
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Posted by: Weiyu Zhu, Software EngineerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-58918970913557395122011-11-10T11:27:00.001-08:002011-12-01T17:10:42.600-08:00Iframe Custom Search Engines are transitioning to the ElementIn August we <a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/google-hosted-custom-search-engines-now.html">transitioned</a> all Google-hosted Custom Search Engines to the Custom Search Element. Now we are transitioning iframe CSEs as well. No work is required from CSE owners. Moving from the iframe option to the Element enables those CSEs to take advantage of our latest features, like <a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/thumbnail-images-in-search-results-no.html">automatic thumbnails</a>.
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If you had an iframe CSE, we encourage you to visit your Control Panel to find new tools for customized presentation and results. As always, we appreciate your feedback in the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch?hl=en">user forum</a>.
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Posted by: Liang Ch'ng, Software EngineerCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36703406.post-13269595518362137642011-11-08T09:06:00.000-08:002011-12-01T17:30:45.667-08:00The power of structured search: a new job search engine for military veteransAs we announced in our <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/powering-new-job-search-engine-for.html">Official Google Blog post</a>, Custom Search technology is powering the new <a href="https://www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov/">National Resource Directory</a> (NRD) job search engine of more than 500,000 job openings from employers around the country. This initiative is a creative application of <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/structured_search.html">structured search</a> to provide a highly customized search experience.
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Want to learn more about how this works? First of all, like all custom search engines, this uses the power and scale of Google search to constantly crawl the web, looking for <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/structured_data.html">structured data</a> to add to the Google index. In this case, sites like <a href="http://simplyhired.com/">simplyhired.com</a> have added <a href="http://schema.org/JobPosting">JobPosting markup from Schema.org</a> to their sites to help search engines identify veteran-committed job openings, job title, job location, etc.
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Recognizing that many job seekers are interested in jobs in their local area, the NRD did some extra work to support a location-based search. When a user specifies a location such as a city or a zipcode in a search, the location is converted into a list of nearby cities with normalized names that match those location markups in the job posting webpages.
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To restrict results to only the relevant job postings, for every user query on their site, NRD sends a well formed query request to Google Custom Search including structured search operators such as <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/structured_search.html#filter_by_attribute">filtering by</a> cities and job codes and <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/structured_search.html#sort_by_attribute">sorting by</a> date to receive XML results and render them on their site.
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We’re happy to contribute to this important initiative and hope the power of Google Custom Search can help more businesses to deliver creative search solutions for their users.
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Posted by: Hui Xu, Technical Lead, Custom Search TeamCustom Search Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18370154978034561365noreply@blogger.com