Google Rolls Out New Custom Search Features, Including Wikipedia Integration

Oct 26, 2009 at 6:30pm ET by Matt McGee

Google has made a series of announcements today about its Custom Search Engine service, including a new integration with Wikipedia that substantially changes the search experience on that site for users who opt-in. Other Custom Search announcements today include new custom themes and layouts, as well as better support for "rich snippets." More on those in a moment. With the new Custom Search Wikipedia Skin, users can now get Wikipedia search results from Google inline on the Wikipedia page you're viewing. The skin provides tabs to show custom search results from all Wikipedia pages, only Wi [...]

Filed in: Google: Custom Search Engine, Top News

Google Custom Search Mobile For iPhone, Android & Palm Pre

Oct 23, 2009 at 9:09am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Custom Search Blog announced the release of a mobile friendly Google Custom Search engine interface support for devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and Palm Pre. Google will now automatically detect the device you are using to access the Google Custom Search Engine and serve up a mobile friendly version, when necessary. If you host it yourself, you can redirect the users yourself and serve up the proper mobile version to your searchers. For more details about this feature, see the Google CSE blog and Google Mobile Blog. Here is a picture of how it might look [...]

Filed in: Google: Custom Search Engine, Google: Mobile

Google Pushing Hard(er) To Get Webmaster Products Adopted

Mar 26, 2009 at 3:33pm ET by Matt McGee

I was setting up a new domain last year, something I'd done countless times and could do with my eyes closed, when my hosting provider suddenly started pushing several Google products on me. Did I want to use Gmail for my domain? Did I want to use Google Apps for Domains? Well, no, but thanks. I think. I found out later it was Google pushing those products via the "Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider Program," which gives web hosting companies easy access to integrate Google products into their hosting services. Google has announced this week that the program has been expanded to [...]

Filed in: Google: AdSense, Google: Apps For Your Domain, Google: Custom Search Engine, Google: Marketing, Google: Webmaster Central

BioNumbers – Specialty Biology Answer Search Engine

Mar 24, 2009 at 3:04pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Today, I met with Dr. Ron Milo who works in the field of plant sciences at Weizmann Institute in Israel, who showed me a specialty search engine project he built from the ground up named BioNumbers. In short, BioNumbers is a collection of common biological numbers that is useful to one's research. For example, the average diameter of a protein is 5 nanometers. This week, I am on a special trip known as the Blogger Delegation to Israel. We are being taken around by the Israeli Consulate to learn about Israel and the people who live here. Clearly, my focus is on search - so when I went to [...]

Filed in: Google: Custom Search Engine, Search Engines: Academic Search Engines, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Yahoo: Search Builder, Yahoo: Search Monkey

Google Launches AdSense For Mobile Search

Feb 10, 2009 at 3:54pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google has announced a new AdSense mobile product named AdSense for mobile search. AdSense for mobile search gives carriers and mobile publishers a quick way to simply embed a Google search box on their mobile sites. This is a lot like AdSense for Search, but the mobile version. Currently, this is a private beta so you need to fill out a form and be accepted into the beta to give it a try. Plus, this is fully hosted by Google and runs of their servers. [...]

Filed in: Google: AdSense, Google: Custom Search Engine, Google: Mobile

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