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Articles and resources about adding internal site search functionality to your website and managing the performance of your website search engine and search results display.
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- Articles and resources about adding site search functionality to your website.
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- Sorting and Filtering Results in Custom Search
- Posted by Roger Wang, Software Engineer. Google Webmaster Central Blog, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. "Using Custom Search Engine (CSE), you can create rich search experiences that make it easier for visitors to find the information they're looking for on your site. Today we're announcing two improvements to sorting and filtering of search results in CSE... - UI-based results sorting - compact queries for filtering by attribute..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- A new look for Custom Search results plus a new search box
- Posted by: Dana Bright, UI Designer. Google Custom Search Blog, Monday, March 12, 2012. "We're excited to announce that starting today, we are providing a new results style that's more modern and streamlined, based on the evolving Google design and experience across Google properties. This look will be the new default for new custom search engines, and admins of existing custom search engines can also choose this new style by visiting the Look and feel page of their CSE’s control panel and selecting 'Default' in the Choose or customize a style section. The old default remains an option, but has been renamed to 'Classic'..."
Added: 21 March 2012;
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- Image results now available from the Custom Search API
- Posted by: Nam Nguyen, Software Engineer. Google Custom Search Blog, Tuesday, February 14, 2012. "Last year we added image results to Google Custom Search Engines to enable sites to offer image-only results that showcase photos and other digital images. For site owners who want more flexibility in presentation, they are also now available from the Custom Search API..."
Added: 16 February 2012;
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- Image Results for your Custom Search Engine
- Posted by: Peng Zhao, Software Engineer. Google Custom Search Blog, Thursday, December 1, 2011. "... Now you can add an image results tab to your CSE to offer your visitors image-only results in a variety of image-optimized presentation formats. Once you enable this feature, your CSE will have two tabs. The first has your current web search results and the second, Image tab, contains the image search results..."
Added: 7 December 2011;
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- More flexibility for promotions
- Posted by: Weiyu Zhu, Software Engineer. Google Custom Search Blog, Tuesday, November 22, 2011. "Custom Search promotions enable you to put relevant information at the top of your search results for specific queries. Today, we’re announcing several new features to give you more flexibility on how and when to trigger them..."
Added: 30 November 2011;
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- It's now easier to set up Google Analytics Site Search tracking for your Custom Search Engine
- Posted by Zhong Wang, Software Engineer. Google Analytics Blog, Wednesday, September 28, 2011. "Google Analytics Site Search reports provide extensive data on how people search your site once they are already on it. You can see initial searches, refinements, search trends, which pages they searched from, where they ended up, and conversion correlation. In the past we admit that setup was a little challenging, but we’re happy to announce that now we’ve made it easy to setup Site Search tracking directly from your Custom Search Engine..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- Site Search Analytics - Pattern Analysis to Improve Your Site
- by Mike Fleming. Search Engine Guide, September 19, 2011. "... Pattern Analysis - With this type of analysis, you look at what your queries have in common or what's odd about them. Basically, as the name suggests, any patterns that you can identify when looking at the main phrases being used by your visitors. If you study these groups, you should be able to gain insights into the content your visitors want and need..."
Added: 22 September 2011;
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- Site Search Analytics: What Your Customers Want...In Their Own Words
- by Mike Fleming. Search Engine Guide, August 26, 2011. "... Keywords that bring users to the site via search engines can help, but visitors are prone to being vague when they use search engines. But, there's one place to go for insights into why visitors are on your site that gets overlooked. It's a place where your site visitors become much more precise about their browsing intent. It's your site search data. No, not the keywords they used in search engines to find your site. It's the phrases they used to search ON your site after they arrived..."
Added: 1 September 2011;
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- Google-hosted Custom Search Engines now use the Element
- Posted by: Liang Ch'ng, Software Engineer. Google Custom Search Blog, Wednesday, August 10, 2011. "Two months ago we announced that all Google-hosted Custom Search Engines would be upgraded to use the Element. We're happy to report that that transition is now complete for all Custom Search users. Those that visit the Control Panel will find better tools for customizing the presentation of their CSEs..."
Added: 15 August 2011;
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- Improved On-Demand Indexing - Google CSE
- Posted by: Rui Jiang, Software Engineer. Google Custom Search Blog, Thursday, June 30, 2011. "When we launched On-Demand Indexing in Custom Search, our goal was to make it possible for you to include your new and changed pages quickly in your website's search results. Since then, we've improved indexing freshness and doubled On-Demand indexing quotas. Today, we're happy to announce further improvements to On-Demand Indexing that make the process simpler and more flexible..."
Added: 4 July 2011;
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- Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers
- By Louis Rosenfeld. UXMatters, June 24, 2011. "This is a sample chapter from Lou Rosenfeld's forthcoming book, Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers. ©2011 Rosenfeld Media. Chapter 8: Practical Tips for Improving Search - I'll show you some specific benefits that come directly from site search analytics, starting with improving your site's search system..."
Added: 29 June 2011;
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- More Layout Options
- Posted by: Ying Huang and Liang Ch'ng, Software Engineers . Google Custom Search Blog, Thursday, June 16, 2011. "Ever since the launch of Custom Search, users have asked us to provide more flexible options to integrate search into their websites. Today, we're launching a set of new layout options for your Custom Search experience. If you go to the Look and feel tab, you’ll see a set of new layouts that you can choose from..."
Added: 23 June 2011;
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- Transferring ownership of your Site Search engine
- Posted by: Yong Zhu, Software engineer. Google Custom Search Blog, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. "Many of you have requested a simpler process for transferring Google Site Search ownership to a different user. For instance, you may have created, developed and customized your website's search experience under your Google account, but want the long-term management of the search engine to be performed by someone else. In the past, you would have been required to manually export the configuration, import it into a new Site Search instance and then cancel the old instance..."
Added: 10 June 2011;
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- 4 Ways to Make Site-Search Effective
- by Gagan Mehra. Practical eCommerce, May 18, 2011. "Search is the second-most critical function on an ecommerce site, after the shopping cart checkout. Shoppers use site search even if they are familiar with the navigation of your site. You can relate to this by thinking of all the instances when you have gone to Amazon.com looking for a product and entered the search term in the search box instead of navigating the product catalog to get to that product. Without effective site search, in short, merchants lose business. So, the question is, what is effective site search? ..."
Added: 19 May 2011;
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- Five critical features of site search
- by Osric Powell. Econsultancy Blog, 21 March 2011. "In reality there are plenty of critical features about site search from the position of the search box itself to the way you guide the users actions from the search results page itself. These five critical areas of site search ought to give you food for thought and, if implemented successfully, make a considerable difference to how your site search pages perform..."
Added: 31 March 2011;
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