With Google Custom Search, you can harness the power of Google to create a customized search experience for your own website.

What can we do with this ?

We can include one or more websites, or specific WebPages

We can host the search box and results on your own website

We can Customize the look and feel of the results to match your site

And much more……

Creating a “Google Custom Search Engine”

1. Go to http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

2. Login with your google email id.

3. Click on “create a Custom Search Engine“.

4. Fill up the Basic Information such as “Search Engine Name, Description and the language in which the search engine should show”

5. Select what do you want to to search in that search engine.ie. You can create a search only for your website or many websites or the Entire Web itself.

6. If you choose to create a search only for your website or many websites, then Specify a list of websites to search. ( You’ll be able to edit this list and add more sites later. )

7. Select the edition you’d like to create. Here you can select between two editions between “Standard” and “Business“. In which for “standard” editions are Free, but ads are present on results pages. Whereas the Business edition - Starts at $100 per year, but there will be no ads on results pages.

8. Agree to their “Tos” and press “Next“.

9. You can preview your search engine or click “Finish” to end the process.

Making Money from “Google Custom Search Engine”

You can also make money through this custom search engine by means of Google adsense.
1. Click on “Make Money” under the “Control panel“.
2. If you don’t have an account, you can create a Google adsense account from here or if you have one you can integrate it by submitting the required details.

Getting the Code

1. Now click on the “get code” and Copy and paste the snippet of code into your webpage.

What else you can do with this custom search engine

1. Basics : Here you can change the name, description and the language of the search engine which we added in the First step.

2. Sites : Here we can include or exclude any number of sites in order to display its results in the search results.

3. Indexing : This google custom search engines will automatically get your site’s sitemap from the google webmaster tools (if you have already submitted there).
You can also Improve the freshness of your search results by selecting a Sitemap containing only your freshest, most important pages from your domain and the Best Part here is You can also enter a list of URLs of individual pages to be indexed (not Sitemaps)

4. Look and Feel : You can also change your look and feel of your search result page here from the default looks.

5. Collaboration : Google Custom Search lets other users collaboration with you in creating your custom search engine. If you invite users to contribute, they will be given limited access to your search engine to add sites and apply existing refinement labels. If your collaborations have their own search engines, you can use their refinement labels. You can include relevant websites that they have tagged with labels to your search engine results. (You can invite 100 people or friends to collaborate with you to build your custom search engine)

6. Statistics : If you are hosting your search results on your site, you can get enhanced reporting through Google Analytics site search reporting. You can know more about it here

Enjoy Your Own Search Engine…..