SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 18, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Google Programmable Search Engine
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition
Google has announced a beefed-up version of Google Custom Search, a site search product aimed at small and medium sized businesses. The new service is hosted by Google and offers all of the same functionality of the free Google Custom Search product, with a few key differences:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Launches APIs For Custom Search Engine
The Google Custom Search Engine blog announced the launch of the new APIs for Google Custom Search Engines. The new APIs enable you to better manage the linked CSE feature. In short, instead of you managing all the criteria on Google’s console, you can manage it via your own tool by using this API. The […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 13, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Custom Search Engines Easier To Build With New Link Learning Tool
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 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Custom Search Engine For Book Search Partners
Google Launches New Tool for Google Book Search Partner Program from the Book Standard reports that Google is launching a new tool for Google Book Search partners. The new tool appears to be like Google’s Custom Search Engine, but specifically designed around Google Book Search. Partners will be able to place code a search box […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Coop Meets Google Gadgets
Steve Rubel reports that Google Coop has added integration with Google Gadgets. For example, I subscribed to a weather subscribed link within the Google Coop and then did a search for weather 10901 and got this:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Helps States Surface Government Information
Google has announced an initiative with state agencies in Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia to help expose government information to web search engines. Often, government information is stored in database systems that are difficult if not impossible for search engine crawlers to access and index. Google is working with technologists from the state agencies to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Yahoo Testing Alpha (Beta) Multi Search
Spotted via Micro Persuasion and Digital Inspiration, Yahoo’s just launched Alpha (in beta version, natch). Both of the aforementioned blogs call Alpha a customized search engine similar to Google Custom Search Engine, but Alpha is really more of a multi-search tool that submits your query to multiple sources and aggregates results from all of them […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google CSE Adds Show Popular Queries
The Google Custom Search Engine blog announced that you can now add a snippet of code on your site to show off the most popular queries (searches) performed by your readers. I am a huge fan of the Google Custom Search Engine but I am not a fan of this implementation.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 21, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Custom Search Engine Gets Supplemental Results
The Google Custom Search Engine Blog announced that Google has added supplemental results to the results displayed in Google Custom Search Engines (CSE). In addition, Google has updated the FAQs to explain that the supplemental results are shown only if one of two conditions are met:
Yahoo Adds Featured Search Builder Sites Box
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have added a box to the home page in order to promote user generated search sites. Yahoo will feature selected sites that use the Yahoo Search Builder tool. If you want to ask Yahoo to feature your site, you can use this form to submit your site. In […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Search Search Marketing Blogs With A Google CSE
Todd Malicoat created a new Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) seeded by Lee Odden’s comprehensive list of must read search marketing blogs. You can access Todd’s Google CSE over here, I like some of the results so far. Todd, also added the search box to his right side navigation, just in case you forget about […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Search SEO & SEM Forums With Google Custom Search Engine
I have created a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) that specifically searches the various search marketing and search engine optimization forums on the web. Currently, the Google CSE searches 14 SEM/SEO forums, and I have honestly been very surprised at how relevant the results have been. You can give the Google CSE a try over […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 23, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Mapshark: A Search Engine For Mashups
Since the advent of the Google and Yahoo (and more recently Virtual Earth) mapping APIs there are hundreds of developers and entrepreneurs who have built interesting and useful mashups. But how does one find them? Of course you could search on Google, Yahoo or Microsoft Live or look at some of the worthy blogs devoted […]
Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly
The Wikipedia search engine has arrived — Wikiseek — but it’s not the Wikipedia search engine you’re thinking of. Wikiseek is completely different than the Search Wikia project backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that I wrote about last month. Below, a look at the disappointing new service along with a revisit to how it […]
Google Custom Search Engine Eases Collaboration Process
The Google Custom Search Blog announces new features that help you communicate and collaborate with those individuals who want to help improve your Google Custom Search Engine. The improvements include: View email addresses of new and old contributors Email announcements of accepted invitations to contribute View sites each contributor added to your custom search engine