Google Custom Search Engine

October 25, 2006 @ 9:31 pm · Filed under AdSense, Advertising, Contextual Ad Networks, General Web Publishing

Google has announced a new Custom Search Engine.

Similar products have been available from other companies for some time. There is Rollyo, Eurekster’s Swicki and Yahoo Search Builder. They all basically offer a customizable search engine by allowing you to enter a series of URLs that will be searched. This allows for the building of verticalsearch engines. For example, if you wanted to build a custom search engine for remote control cars, you can enter the URLs of all you favorite remote control car sites, and the search will select pages just from those URLs.

Google’s offering has a pretty good combination of features, compared to the others, including:

  • Unlimited URLs. You can enter in as many URLs to include in the search results as you like.
  • The ability to monetize the searches. You can provide your AdSense publisher ID and the search will be just like AdSense for Search.
  • It allows you to specify if you want to only search in those URLs, or gives those URLs preference over all the others.

For some more opinions on Google’s Custom Search Engine, see Matt Cutts, John Battelle, Aaron Wall and JenSense.

2 Comments

  1. Steve Said,

    October 26, 2006 @ 6:33 am

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  2. Lucrando na Rede » Blog Archive » Tenha seu próprio mecanismo de busca Said,

    October 28, 2006 @ 7:45 am

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