Google Launches Custom Search Engine Service

It's easy to create your own Custom Google Search. Google has created a wizard that leads you through the process in a few simple steps. Visit google.com/coop/cse to get started with the wizard, and for FAQ files and other information to learn more about the service.

First, you need to specify sites you want to include or exclude from your search engine. You can also prioritize sites, giving some more precedence than others.

Once you've created your list of sites to search, test your new engine out and preview search results. If you like what you see, simply cut and paste a few lines of code on your web site or blog.

If you're not satisfied or want to do further tweaking, Google lets you do quite a bit more customization from the "My search engines" page. This page lists all of the custom search engines you've created, with links to each one's home page and control panel. There are also link to delete custom search engines you no longer want to use.

If you're not satisfied or want to do further tweaking, Google lets you do quite a bit more customization from the "My search engines" page. This page lists all of the custom search engines you've created, with links to each one's home page and control panel. There are also link to delete custom search engines you no longer want to use.

The control panel offers numerous options for tweaking your search engine. These options are grouped into a menu that includes basics, sites, refinements, look and feel, code, collaboration, make money, advanced and preview.

Some of the features give you a lot of control over your search engine—to a degree not often found in other custom search engine sites, unless you have the technical chops to sling code. For example, you can create refinements that specify words to automatically add to any query, helping users narrow the focus of results without additional work on their part. You can also use the full range of Google's Boolean and advanced search operators in these refinements.

You can also manipulate the look and feel of the search box, to make it look integrated with the other design elements on your site.

After playing with this it did not do what I want. Google and blogspot do not do a full search of my archives. On my Liberal News blog I added a search box to another engine but it is not as good and I exceeded its capacity so it doesn't search all days. The problem with Google and blogspot may be that my Liberal News posts create two types of archives, a daily page of all posts and the individual posts.