Archive for the 'google' Category

Add OpenSearch to your site in five minutes
Thursday, February 8th, 2007

You have a website.
Google makes a pretty good search engine.
Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 both support OpenSearch as a way of customizing the browser’s search box.
And you can make all three work together in five minutes. No programming required.
Check this out:
Step 1: Save the template
Use the template below to create a file on [...]

Search the World of Warcraft
Monday, January 15th, 2007

Perhaps one of the most interesting, but as yet most under-noticed, bits of technology to come out of Google in the past year is Google Co-op Custom Search Engines. Google CSE’s give users the power to create a search engine specifically tailored to any topic they can imagine.
A few of us at [...]

Aggregated blog and news feeds
Friday, November 3rd, 2006

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to [...]