Google Custom Search Engines Easier To Build With New Link Learning Tool

Jun 13, 2007 at 12:05pm ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Custom Search blog announced an interesting new feature that allows you to tell Google to customize the search results of your Google CSE based on who you link to within your site.

Google will look at who you link to, then use that information to add content that your custom search engine searches against.

Imagine, if you have a resource page of mobile products and you constantly update that page with more resources. In the past, if you had a Google CSE, you would have to manually add the new resource to your Google CSE sites list. Now, Google will automatically pick up that you linked to a new resource, and it will add it to your Google CSE automatically.

How do you do this?

Go to Google CSE, then click on your “control panel”, then click on “sites” and then click the “add sites” button. That will pop open this box:

Select the “dynamically extract links from this page and add them to my search engine” option.

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Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON Google Custom Search Engines Easier To Build With New Link Learning Tool

webjunkie2.0, June 13th, 2007 at 4:28 pm ET:

Gotta love Google. Always making my life easier and easier. Automagicly picking up new resources and adding them to my Google CSE – now if I could just them to come up with something in the realm of automatic housecleaning.

Leslie
http://www.searchcneingetriumphs.com

webjunkie2.0, June 13th, 2007 at 4:29 pm ET:

Leslie
http://www.searchenginetriumphs.com

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