There may be many reasons you may want to have your own Search Engine these could be from wanting to be able to allow your blogs readers to have a search of your site with your settings or even you may want to have your own custom search engine that will search a collection of sites of your choice.
As an example, I have both on my blog and one the “Bloggers Search Engine” uses a list of DoFollow and CommentLuv blogs that I am building up and adding over time.
One option for creating your search engine is to utilize the Google Custom Search Engine, not only will this allow you to create your search engine but it will also combine with your Google AdSense, so earning you a little from your new engine.
Setting up a Search Engine this way is quite simple, once you have signed in with your Google details; you are ready to build your new search engine.
How To Build Your Own Custom Search Engine?
- Create your Search Engine and give it a name, description and the sites you wish to search (these can be edited later).
- In your control panel you can now add or remove sites when you wish, simply by adding the address of the chosen site.
- Change the look and feel of your new engine and preview it.
- Add the code to your website/blog and there you go.
Most of the instructions for updating your new Search Engine are very simple to use, an option which I would recommend using is the option of “Make Money” this will connect your AdSense account to you engine, giving you the possibility of making a little extra on the side from Google Ads on the search Engine results. It won’t make you mega rich, but every little helps.
So, if you want to build your own Search Engine then this is certainly a good method of doing it, it certainly works on my blog and fits in seamlessly with the pages etc.
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(47 comments) December 7, 2009 at 5:49 pm
What an interesting idea! And why not – isn’t a site search just a mini version of this? I’ll have to give this a try. Thanks, Karen.
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(9 comments) November 24, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I personally like this feature of google, it provides good search results and also makes you extra money.
What more could you ask for?
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Very handy when you don’t want the hassle of an entire Google search.
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(49 comments) November 22, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I never know such a feature exists and I’m calling my self a tech blogger!
Your custom one is good since we can search for a specific keyword and do some backlinking to our current posts with the same keywords. I guess I’ll just use yours hee hee
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Excellent post Karen I recently added this to most of my blogs I have a couple to do than Im all done. I love the Google custom search.
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Dennis Edell (163 comments) Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
John, this is how you did it? Cool.
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(57 comments) November 21, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Awesome. I have built custom search engines in virtually all my blogs and have tied this with AdSense. Believe it or not, there are always people who use that box and it is great, because you can put all of your blog network in one place and users can find first within your network and then Google:)
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Good post. But anyways why would anyone build a search engine when Google is there…………..
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chandan
@moonheart
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November 22nd, 2009 at 1:06 am
Yes I also agree with you, that why people will be interested to build their own search engine after all there are some big search engine like google
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Blazing Minds
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November 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 am
It’s handy if you would like to create a search engine that only has a list of websites of your choice, such as a DoFollow only search engine, such as mine that has a list of DoFollow blogs to search through.
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(2 comments) November 21, 2009 at 7:54 am
or you could simply use the resource page in your Google Adsense to get the search engine code, plus make money for sponsored link clicks
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Hesham
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November 21st, 2009 at 11:55 am
Thanks for the Tip!
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