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Create and manage Custom Search Engines from within Webmaster Tools

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 2:20 AM

Webmaster level: All

Custom Search Engines (CSEs) enable you to create Google-powered customized search experiences for your sites. You can search over one or more sites, customize the look and feel to match your site, and even make money with AdSense for Search. Now it’s even easier to get started directly from Webmaster Tools.

If you’ve never created a CSE, just click on the “Custom Search” link in the Labs section and we’ll automatically create a default CSE that searches just your site. You can do some basic configuring or immediately get the code snippet to add your new CSE to your site. You can always continue on to the full CSE control panel for more advanced settings.

Once you’ve created your CSE (or if you already had one), clicking the “Custom Search” link in Labs will allow you to manage your CSEs without leaving Webmaster Tools.

We hope these new features make it easier for you to help users search your site. If you have any questions, please post them in our Webmaster Help Forum or the Custom Search Help Forum.

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13 comments:

Redazione said...

And if a site still has CSE inside, is linkable with GWT?

kasprbs said...

I'm not seeing the option of importing my existing site-search-engine. Only two choices to craete new ones

Vista Stores said...

I aware about Google custom search. But, I have different confusion for search facility on my website. I have integrated internal search facility on my ecommerce website. So, Can I implement multiple search facility?

Faizan said...

Does these searches show in webmaster tool so we can track that what people are searching in our web ?

I know nothing said...

Created both a html and xhtml page, tried both pages in IE9, FF and Chrome, all pages only show the word Loading.

Sammy Noorani said...

Does the CSE give us any visibility or reporting via Google Analytics to what is being searched in the custom search engine on our site?

Bibowski said...

This is just Google Site Search renamed to Google Custom Search. How is it ANY different?

Humberto Iglesias said...

I was wondering the custom search uses relevant/recent data found, and how it does that? Does the search engine use the date of origination(when the data was actually created) or the date of when the spider visited the site. I'm just curious to know how that time delay is affected. Thank you. Humberto Iglesias

coniefox said...

It's seems really convenient to use the webmaster tool, i always use igoogle, i will have a try.

Ramakrishna said...

I noticed recently that Google is not caching all of the pages on my website. Upon using the Google webmaster diagnostic tool, I realized that some of my pages were being restricted by entries in my robots.txt file.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

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How to fix it?

The Best Scent Store said...

i do not see the option of improting my site search engine am i missing it?

Putri Arisnawati said...

can I styling CSE with my own style with jquery? especially adsense for search. Coz, my site http://www.threelas.com is using adsense for search

naveen said...

Hi,
I have got a query regarding google custom search engine.
I am using google custom search engine in my website.
I have disallowed google web search to crawl on some of my private pages through robots.txt.
Will it also effect the google custom search engine I have used in my website?

for example i have the below code in my robots.txt page

User-agent: *
Disallow: /users
Allow: /

I hope this code will disallow the google web search to show the pages under users/. But Will it also disallow the google custom search engine to list out the results under users page.