Most of us have already heard about Google Custom Search, but still I’ll give you a brief introduction. Google Custom Search is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorize Google Web Search queries and create customized search engines. It was launched on 10th May, 2006.
After three years of success Google Custom Search now has more than a million users serving many tens of millions of search queries daily and it is also now among the top two widgets available online, used by many small and big business entities. And to celebrate its third anniversary, Google has just included three new useful features of its Custom Search engine.
Custom Search Themes — Now with the ultra-configurable Element you can select from among a set of layouts and styles to use for your search results pages. The themes are easily customizable and won’t lock you into the same uniform format.
Structured Custom Search — Google Custom Search results will now provide thumbnails and actions. You can now also restrict your search results according to these attributes based on the metadata that you provide. Custom metadata attributes and custom query restricts will make your searches truly structured.
Wikipedia Custom Search Skin — Google now puts search across all Wikipedia articles hence providing your users with highly contextual search results when searching within Wikipedia. You will get Google search across all Wikipedia articles as well as topical results based on the links on the Wikipedia article you are currently reading.
Many of these powerful Custom Search tools will help you get high-quality search quickly enabled on the websites.
For more information about these tools you can visit Google Custom Search Turns 3 or Google Official Blog.
