Author Archives: Custom Search Team

Today’s guest post comes from Chris Poe, Engineering Director at JibJab Media The folks at JibJab are good at doing two things: Making people laugh and… Okay, so maybe weʼre REALLY good at one thing: Making people laugh. Finding the perfect birthd… Continue reading →

One of the most requested features for Custom Search is autocompletion of queries. Today, we announced at Google I/O that you can now enable query autocompletions for your search engine.The screenshot below shows an example of query autocompletion at … Continue reading →

The just-released Adobe® Creative Suite 5 (CS5) now includes a new Community Help application, powered by Google Site Search. It’s an Adobe AIR®-based companion that’s automatically installed as part of any new Adobe CS5 product.Launched directly… Continue reading →

Website owners who use Parallels Plesk Panel to manage their hosting and website services can now configure Custom Search and Site Search in a couple of clicks! As announced on the Google Blog, Plesk now offers out-of-box integration with Google Servi… Continue reading →

Since the launch of Custom Search, we’ve been constantly pushing the customization envelope — allowing users to tweak ranking, provide refinements, add promotions above results, change the look and feel, select from themes and modify layouts.We did no… Continue reading →

The Custom Search team is always working to provide more relevant results, and improving user queries is a big part of that goal. We’ve shown you how to create refinement labels for queries and create custom synonyms for your search engine. We have bee… Continue reading →

With the launch of Custom Search themes, you have the ability to select from among a set of result styles, as well as decide on the layout for the search box and search results. Specifically, we offer commonly-used layouts: full-width (search box and s… Continue reading →

If you programmatically create and manage custom search engines, you are probably familiar with the XML format for Custom Search. The context file, which includes the specifications for the search engine, now has a richer look and feel section that let… Continue reading →