Have you ever
wished that you could harness the power of Google to create a customized search engine for
your website or a collection of websites? Custom Search lets you do that in under five
minutes—and that includes time for a tea break. Pretty sweet, eh? If you have more time, you
could take the customization to the next level. You can select websites to include, ignore, or
prioritize in your search engine. You can even tweak the ranking of your search results and
change the look and feel of your results page, among other things.
If
you are curious about how tricked-out custom search engines work, you don't have to look
further than the Custom Search API
page on Google Code. Go ahead, try out some search queries and be sure to visit the
Custom Search
Directory, which showcases some popular custom search engines. And close to home, we
use a combination of the Custom Search API and the AJAX Search API to power search on Google
Code.
