The Custom one

Feb 22, 2007 16:01 GMT  ·  By

At this time, Google's Custom Search Engine is the product that can be discovered on numerous sites from the Internet because it helps webmasters include Google's search technology on their websites. This way, the visitors will be able to find information directly from the page but on a limited number of links selected by the webmaster. Google Custom Search engine allows users to search the Internet for a specified keyword as well as the site that contains the product. Today, the company announced a new improvement added to the product that will improve the search relevancy using the supplemental results function.

"One of the common uses of Custom Search Engines is to provide site search. A number of users have suggested that we can improve Custom Search for this application by also including supplemental results in Custom Search Engine's results. We put fewer constraints on what pages go into our supplemental index and therefore there are many pages which are available only there. This is our first step to give you more results. If your search engine operates as a filter and has three sites or less or your search engine includes the whole web, you'll get supplemental results as well," Patrick Riley, Software Engineer, sustained in a blog post published on the official site of the company.

Technically, how does this new feature work? Well, the Google Custom Search Engine will create a separate index of data containing links or other information and will be able to return them once the user searches for a keyword that matches a certain database.

Some time ago, I tested this interesting tool provided by Google and I found it quite easy to use because you're required to follow some simple steps to obtain the HTML code of the search box. Then, you can copy the code and include it into the content of your website to allow users to search on the Internet and on your page.