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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. The objective of our website/search engine is to organize the world's real estate information and make it universally accessible and useful. Sometimes it pays to play "Follow the Leader."
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Custom Search Blog Discussion group Support Custom Search Engine FAQ What is a Custom Search Engine? How does the Custom Search Engine work? What can I do with my Custom Search Engine? What customization options are available? Why is Google launching this? How do I and other people access my Custom Search Engine? What are Custom Search Engine Gadgets? Why doesn't my Custom Search Engine Gadget work? What does this have to do with Google Co-op? When will the Custom Search Engine be available in other countries? How do I make money from my Custom Search Engine? How much Google branding is there in the Custom Search Engine? What are the branding guidelines? What should I name my Custom Search Engine? Who hosts my Custom Search Engine results pages? What are search refinements? How do I add them to my Custom Search Engine? What does it mean to collaborate on a Custom Search Engine? What do contributors to my Custom Search Engine do? How do I invite somebody? Can people I invite to collaborate on my search engine invite other people as well? Do I have to approve other people's contributions? What is the volunteer process? How does the volunteer process work? Is there a limit to the number of contributors? Can I create a Custom Search Engine to search my company's internal content? Why does my Custom Search Engine not show the results that I expect when I do a search? I am having problems getting Google AdSense to work with my Custom Search Engine. Now what? I have more than one Custom Search Engine - how do I know how much money each one is making through AdSense? I know that my Custom Search Engine has traffic. Why is the Popular Queries list empty? Do Custom Search Engines include supplemental results? What is Public Service Search? I'm a current Free Search / PSS customer, how do I use Custom Search for my search engine? Is there a limit on how many sites/patterns I can include in my search engine? What is a Linked CSE and how do I create one? Why am I not seeing the changes I made to my Linked CSE? 1. What is a Custom Search Engine? A Custom Search Engine is a tailored search experience, built using Google's core search technology, which prioritizes or restricts search results based on websites and pages that you specify, and which can be tailored to reflect your point of view or area of expertise.
2. How does the Custom Search Engine work? Simply submit websites or pages you'd like to include in your search engine index. You can choose either to restrict your search results to include only these pages and sites, or simply to give these pages and sites higher priority and ranking in the larger Google index. Once you've defined your search engine index, Google will give you a simple piece of code for a search box to place on your site or blog. You'll then have the option to choose various customization options to make the look and feel and functionality of your search engine your own.
3. What can I do with my Custom Search Engine? What customization options are available? With a Custom Search Engine you can:
Apply your website's look and feel to the search results page. Make money from your Custom Search Engine by participating in Google's AdSense program. Provide search refinements within results pages to make it easier for searchers to find the information they're looking for. Incrementally add sites to your search engine's index as you surf the web. Invite friends and trusted users to co-edit and contribute to your search engine. For more information about these features, visit Managing a Custom Search Engine.
4. Why is Google launching this? Google's mission is to connect people to information - no matter how specialized or specific - as quickly as possible. The Custom Search Engine allows you to combine Google's search algorithm with your own expertise to create a customized experience - thus making access to specific information across the web easier for your users.
5. How do I and other people access my Custom Search Engine? There are several ways to access your Custom Search Engine:
Once you've created a Custom Search Engine, you can use the Google-hosted homepage that we'll give you and conduct your searches there. You can place the Custom Search Engine search box on your own website, where anyone who visits your site can use it. You can add a Custom Search Box Gadget to your iGoogle page that contains a search box for your search engine. You can add a Custom Search Console Gadget to your iGoogle page that contains a search box and management tools for each of the search engines you have created or are contributing to. To learn more about Custom Search Engines and how to create them, visit Custom Search Engine setup and management. 6. What are Custom Search Engine Gadgets? Custom Search Engine Gadgets are Google Gadgets that you can add to your iGoogle page. The Custom Search Box Gadget contains a search box for an individual Custom Search Engine. You can add the Custom Search Engine Gadget for a particular search engine to your iGoogle page by visiting the homepage of the Custom Search Engine and clicking on the button. If you have developed your own Custom Search Engine, you can put the button on your website to allow your users to add your search engine to their Google homepage. You can get the code for the button in the "Code" tab of your search engine's control panel.
The Custom Search Console Gadget contains the search boxes and management links for all of the Custom Search Engines you have created or are contributing to. You can add this gadget to your homepage by clicking the button on the "My search engines" page.
7. Why doesn't my Custom Search Engine Gadget work? If your Custom Search Box Gadget is not working properly, the problem may be that you have not specified a valid URL for your search engine results in the "Code" tab of your search engine's control panel. If you have set your search engine up to deliver the results to an iframe in your own website, please make sure the URL you have specified in the "Search box and search results code for your website" section of the "Code" tab is valid.
8. What does this have to do with Google Co-op? The Custom Search Engine is built on the Google Co-op platform, the goal of which is to enable people to build upon, customize and tailor Google Web Search.
9. When will the Custom Search Engine be available in other countries? You can use http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ to build a Custom Search Engine targeted at many different languages. The interface for maintaining your Custom Search Engine is currently only available in English. We plan to extend the service to additional countries and languages soon.
10. How do I make money from my Custom Search Engine? To make money from your Custom Search Engine you can join Google's AdSense for Search program, which places contextually relevant ads on your Custom Search Engine's search results pages - and pays you a share of all the revenue that's generated from those ads. For more information about how the AdSense for Search program and Custom Search Engine work together, visit the Make Money page in your search engine's Control Panel. Learn more about making money.
11. How much Google branding is there in the Custom Search Engine? What are the branding guidelines? We want you to have as much control over the Custom Search Engine branding as possible. To learn more about the branding guidelines for your Custom Search Engine, please see the Terms of Service.
12. What should I name my Custom Search Engine? You can name your Custom Search Engine whatever you want - well, almost. You can't use "Google" in the name of your search engine, and you shouldn't use other trademarked names unless you own them or have permission from the trademark owner to use them in your name. We also recommend that you keep the name of your search engine down to 3-4 words because the name will fit more nicely on your search engine homepage and search results that way.
13. Who hosts my Custom Search Engine results pages? We host the search results pages for you; you don't have to pay for software or hosting services, or possess the technical expertise to add your Custom Search Engine results to your site. You can customize the look and feel of your Custom Search Engine search results to make it feel like your own, and you can also host the results in an iframe on your own site if you prefer.
14. What are search refinements? How do I add them to my Custom Search Engine? Refinements are labels that you apply to web sites in your search engine index to help your users more easily find the information they are looking for. When a user clicks a refinement label at the top of the search results pages, sites that you have annotated with the label are either searched exclusively or given priority in the results - you choose. The maximum number of refinements per search results page is 16. Learn more about adding refinements to your Custom Search Engine or visit the Refinements page in the Control Panel of your Custom Search Engine.
15. What does it mean to collaborate on a Custom Search Engine? Your Custom Search Engine can benefit not only from your hard work, but also from that of others who collaborate with you. Collaboration is an optional feature which allows you to let other people whose expertise you trust contribute to your Custom Search Engine. You can either invite people explicitly, or allow anyone to volunteer to collaborate, with your approval. Learn more about collaboration.
16. What do contributors to my Custom Search Engine do? A contributor is a person that you trust and whose expertise you want to improve your Custom Search Engine. Contributors can add additional sites to be included or excluded in your Custom Search Engine and annotate them with any refinement labels that you've created. Contributors cannot change the name, description, or look and feel of your Custom Search Engine, and they cannot access the Code or Make Money features of your Custom Search Engine.
17. How do I invite somebody? You can send an email invitation to your potential contributors. You'll find the invitation form under the "Collaboration" tab of your Custom Search Engine's control panel. If your potential contributor decides to accept, she'll be prompted to get started with Google Co-op if she hasn't already. Your contributor's additions are available to anyone who searches using your Custom Search Engine.
18. Can people I invite to collaborate on my search engine invite other people as well? No, they cannot. The initial Custom Search Engine creator is the only person who can invite people to collaborate on the search engine.
19. Do I have to approve other people's contributions? No, you don't. As your contributors add sites and annotate them with refinement labels, they'll automatically be included in your Custom Search Engine. If you aren't happy with a contributor, you can remove this person from your Custom Search Engine and this will remove whatever contributions they've made to your Custom Search Engine.
20. What is the volunteer process? The volunteer process is a way for anybody interested in your Custom Search Engine to contribute without you inviting them. When you set up your Custom Search Engine, you have the option to let people volunteer to contribute to your Custom Search Engine. When this option is set, others on Google Co-op will be able to volunteer to your Custom Search Engine. You can change this option at any time in the "Basics" tab of your Custom Search Engine.
21. How does the volunteer process work? When a person visits the homepage of your Custom Search Engine, and you've allowed volunteers, they can click on a link that allows them to make a request to volunteer for your Custom Search Engine. It's up to you to accept or decline their offer. You'll see these volunteer requests in the "Collaborators" tab in the control panel of your Custom Search Engine. If you accept the volunteer, they'll be added as a contributor to your Custom Search Engine.
22. Is there a limit to the number of contributors? Every new member of Google Co-op gets 100 invitations; you can see your current number in the "Collaborators" tab in the control panel of your Custom Search Engine. However, there's no limit on the number of contributors you can obtain if they volunteer themselves.
23. Can I create a Custom Search Engine to search my company's internal content? Currently, a Custom Search Engine only searches over content indexed on the Web. If you are interested in creating a search engine to crawl and serve results for your company's internal content, you should check out the Google Mini or a Google Search Appliance. These search products are capable of indexing your company's internal content and reside behind your corporate firewall, unlike the hosted Google Co-op service.
24. Why does my Custom Search Engine not show the results that I expect when I do a search? If you are seeing more results than you expect, make sure that you have selected that you want to search only the sites you provide, not the entire web, in your Custom Search Engine control panel. If you are not seeing a particular result that you expect: Make sure that you have included the result or the pattern matching the result in your Custom Search Engine. Beware of spelling mistakes! Make sure the page you expect to see is in the Google index. A simple way of checking is to do a search on Google with the site: operator along with a few words on that page as a search query. Please visit Google Webmaster Central for more resources. If your page does show up in the Google index, check to see if it is marked as a "Supplemental Result". Only some Custom Search Engines include supplemental results If these suggestions don't help, we would love to hear from you. Please include a link to your search engine, the search query and the result page that you expected to appear. 25. I am having problems getting Google AdSense to work with my Custom Search Engine. Now what? If you are getting a "Forbidden" message, your AdSense account has been rejected/disapproved. We do not give you the exact reason for disapproval but some possible reasons for disapproval include being classified as a spammer, providing incorrect information when setting up your account, and opening multiple accounts with same information. If you feel that the account should not be disapproved, please post on the Google Coop discussion group with your AdSense ID and we can try looking into it. If no ads appear on the results pages for your Custom Search Engine, possible explanations include: The search query did not trigger ads. If you have just applied for an AdSense account, you will not see any ads until your account gets approved (usually in a few days). If you have indicated that your Custom Search Engine is for a non-profit or educational institution, your search engine results will never have ads. 26. I have more than one Custom Search Engine - how do I know how much money each one is making through AdSense? You can track activity in each of your Custom Search Engines by setting up Channels in your AdSense account. By setting up a different channel for each search engine, you can view detailed earning reports for each one. You can learn more about setting up Channels here. If you are unable to create Channels in your AdSense account, please note that after associating your AdSense account with Coop for the first time, you will receive a confirmation email asking if you want to confirm this association. You have to confirm this before you can create Channels. 27. I know that my Custom Search Engine has traffic. Why is the Popular Queries list empty? The most likely explanation is that no query occurred sufficiently often to make it "popular". Our definition of popular tries to balance your curiosity about your Custom Search Engine traffic, and our requirement that we take reasonable steps to protect your users' privacy.
28. Do Custom Search Engines include supplemental results? In Google's regular web search, you may notice some results marked with "Supplemental Result" (see the Webmaster help center for more information). Currently, a Custom Search Engine will include these results only if one of the following is true:
You have configured your search engine to search only the sites or patterns that you specify (see the Basics tab of your control panel), and you have specified at most three sites or patterns. You have configured your search engine to search the whole web, but emphasize the sites or patterns you specified. Similarly, if a refinement inside of a search engine meets one of these requirements, you will get supplemental results when you click on that refinement. For example, consider a search engine which includes 100 sites, and is configured to search only those sites. Regular searches will not include supplemental results. However, suppose it has a refinement called "small" which is configured to include only 2 of those sites. If you click on the "small" refinement in your search engine (or include "more:small" in your query), the search will include supplemental results.
We're working hard to bring supplemental results to more Custom Search Engines.
29. What is Public Service Search? Google's free Public Service Search brings the power of Google's search technology to websites of educational institutions and non-profit organizations worldwide. Public Service Search features no advertisements, a high level of customization, analytics, unlimited queries, and the ability to enable site search without web search. To sign up, simply create a Custom Search Engine and select no advertisements.
30. I'm a current Free Search / PSS customer, how do I use Custom Search for my search engine? The best way to use Custom Search Engine for your PSS or Free Search is to create a new CSE and a new account with your username and password. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Simply follow the two step process of creating your CSE and remember to select no ads if you are a PSS user. Once your search engine is created, you can simply place the new Custom Search Engine code on your site, replacing the old PSS code that you have. CSE lets you easily customize the search results, look and feel of your new search engine and keep track of the traffic you receive.
31. Is there a limit on how many sites/patterns I can include in my Custom Search Engine? You can only have 5000 annotations (included and excluded sites or patterns) across all of your search engines. If you need more annotations, you may use a Linked CSE.
32. What is a Linked CSE and how do I create one? In a Linked CSE, you host the XML specification of your search engine on your site instead of storing that information with Google. For more information, read Linked Custom Search Engines.
33. Why am I not seeing the changes I made to my Linked CSE? You can refresh the XML specification of your Linked CSE if Google has not retrieved your new version by going to the Custom Search Specification testing page. Note that it may take up to a few minutes to refresh all files included in your XML specification.
Custom Search Blog Discussion group Support Custom Search Engine FAQ What is a Custom Search Engine? How does the Custom Search Engine work? What can I do with my Custom Search Engine? What customization options are available? Why is Google launching this? How do I and other people access my Custom Search Engine? What are Custom Search Engine Gadgets? Why doesn't my Custom Search Engine Gadget work? What does this have to do with Google Co-op? When will the Custom Search Engine be available in other countries? How do I make money from my Custom Search Engine? How much Google branding is there in the Custom Search Engine? What are the branding guidelines? What should I name my Custom Search Engine? Who hosts my Custom Search Engine results pages? What are search refinements? How do I add them to my Custom Search Engine? What does it mean to collaborate on a Custom Search Engine? What do contributors to my Custom Search Engine do? How do I invite somebody? Can people I invite to collaborate on my search engine invite other people as well? Do I have to approve other people's contributions? What is the volunteer process? How does the volunteer process work? Is there a limit to the number of contributors? Can I create a Custom Search Engine to search my company's internal content? Why does my Custom Search Engine not show the results that I expect when I do a search? I am having problems getting Google AdSense to work with my Custom Search Engine. Now what? I have more than one Custom Search Engine - how do I know how much money each one is making through AdSense? I know that my Custom Search Engine has traffic. Why is the Popular Queries list empty? Do Custom Search Engines include supplemental results? What is Public Service Search? I'm a current Free Search / PSS customer, how do I use Custom Search for my search engine? Is there a limit on how many sites/patterns I can include in my search engine? What is a Linked CSE and how do I create one? Why am I not seeing the changes I made to my Linked CSE? 1. What is a Custom Search Engine? A Custom Search Engine is a tailored search experience, built using Google's core search technology, which prioritizes or restricts search results based on websites and pages that you specify, and which can be tailored to reflect your point of view or area of expertise.
2. How does the Custom Search Engine work? Simply submit websites or pages you'd like to include in your search engine index. You can choose either to restrict your search results to include only these pages and sites, or simply to give these pages and sites higher priority and ranking in the larger Google index. Once you've defined your search engine index, Google will give you a simple piece of code for a search box to place on your site or blog. You'll then have the option to choose various customization options to make the look and feel and functionality of your search engine your own.
3. What can I do with my Custom Search Engine? What customization options are available? With a Custom Search Engine you can:
Apply your website's look and feel to the search results page. Make money from your Custom Search Engine by participating in Google's AdSense program. Provide search refinements within results pages to make it easier for searchers to find the information they're looking for. Incrementally add sites to your search engine's index as you surf the web. Invite friends and trusted users to co-edit and contribute to your search engine. For more information about these features, visit Managing a Custom Search Engine.
4. Why is Google launching this? Google's mission is to connect people to information - no matter how specialized or specific - as quickly as possible. The Custom Search Engine allows you to combine Google's search algorithm with your own expertise to create a customized experience - thus making access to specific information across the web easier for your users.
5. How do I and other people access my Custom Search Engine? There are several ways to access your Custom Search Engine:
Once you've created a Custom Search Engine, you can use the Google-hosted homepage that we'll give you and conduct your searches there. You can place the Custom Search Engine search box on your own website, where anyone who visits your site can use it. You can add a Custom Search Box Gadget to your iGoogle page that contains a search box for your search engine. You can add a Custom Search Console Gadget to your iGoogle page that contains a search box and management tools for each of the search engines you have created or are contributing to. To learn more about Custom Search Engines and how to create them, visit Custom Search Engine setup and management. 6. What are Custom Search Engine Gadgets? Custom Search Engine Gadgets are Google Gadgets that you can add to your iGoogle page. The Custom Search Box Gadget contains a search box for an individual Custom Search Engine. You can add the Custom Search Engine Gadget for a particular search engine to your iGoogle page by visiting the homepage of the Custom Search Engine and clicking on the button. If you have developed your own Custom Search Engine, you can put the button on your website to allow your users to add your search engine to their Google homepage. You can get the code for the button in the "Code" tab of your search engine's control panel.
The Custom Search Console Gadget contains the search boxes and management links for all of the Custom Search Engines you have created or are contributing to. You can add this gadget to your homepage by clicking the button on the "My search engines" page.
7. Why doesn't my Custom Search Engine Gadget work? If your Custom Search Box Gadget is not working properly, the problem may be that you have not specified a valid URL for your search engine results in the "Code" tab of your search engine's control panel. If you have set your search engine up to deliver the results to an iframe in your own website, please make sure the URL you have specified in the "Search box and search results code for your website" section of the "Code" tab is valid.
8. What does this have to do with Google Co-op? The Custom Search Engine is built on the Google Co-op platform, the goal of which is to enable people to build upon, customize and tailor Google Web Search.
9. When will the Custom Search Engine be available in other countries? You can use http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ to build a Custom Search Engine targeted at many different languages. The interface for maintaining your Custom Search Engine is currently only available in English. We plan to extend the service to additional countries and languages soon.
10. How do I make money from my Custom Search Engine? To make money from your Custom Search Engine you can join Google's AdSense for Search program, which places contextually relevant ads on your Custom Search Engine's search results pages - and pays you a share of all the revenue that's generated from those ads. For more information about how the AdSense for Search program and Custom Search Engine work together, visit the Make Money page in your search engine's Control Panel. Learn more about making money.
11. How much Google branding is there in the Custom Search Engine? What are the branding guidelines? We want you to have as much control over the Custom Search Engine branding as possible. To learn more about the branding guidelines for your Custom Search Engine, please see the Terms of Service.
12. What should I name my Custom Search Engine? You can name your Custom Search Engine whatever you want - well, almost. You can't use "Google" in the name of your search engine, and you shouldn't use other trademarked names unless you own them or have permission from the trademark owner to use them in your name. We also recommend that you keep the name of your search engine down to 3-4 words because the name will fit more nicely on your search engine homepage and search results that way.
13. Who hosts my Custom Search Engine results pages? We host the search results pages for you; you don't have to pay for software or hosting services, or possess the technical expertise to add your Custom Search Engine results to your site. You can customize the look and feel of your Custom Search Engine search results to make it feel like your own, and you can also host the results in an iframe on your own site if you prefer.
14. What are search refinements? How do I add them to my Custom Search Engine? Refinements are labels that you apply to web sites in your search engine index to help your users more easily find the information they are looking for. When a user clicks a refinement label at the top of the search results pages, sites that you have annotated with the label are either searched exclusively or given priority in the results - you choose. The maximum number of refinements per search results page is 16. Learn more about adding refinements to your Custom Search Engine or visit the Refinements page in the Control Panel of your Custom Search Engine.
15. What does it mean to collaborate on a Custom Search Engine? Your Custom Search Engine can benefit not only from your hard work, but also from that of others who collaborate with you. Collaboration is an optional feature which allows you to let other people whose expertise you trust contribute to your Custom Search Engine. You can either invite people explicitly, or allow anyone to volunteer to collaborate, with your approval. Learn more about collaboration.
16. What do contributors to my Custom Search Engine do? A contributor is a person that you trust and whose expertise you want to improve your Custom Search Engine. Contributors can add additional sites to be included or excluded in your Custom Search Engine and annotate them with any refinement labels that you've created. Contributors cannot change the name, description, or look and feel of your Custom Search Engine, and they cannot access the Code or Make Money features of your Custom Search Engine.
17. How do I invite somebody? You can send an email invitation to your potential contributors. You'll find the invitation form under the "Collaboration" tab of your Custom Search Engine's control panel. If your potential contributor decides to accept, she'll be prompted to get started with Google Co-op if she hasn't already. Your contributor's additions are available to anyone who searches using your Custom Search Engine.
18. Can people I invite to collaborate on my search engine invite other people as well? No, they cannot. The initial Custom Search Engine creator is the only person who can invite people to collaborate on the search engine.
19. Do I have to approve other people's contributions? No, you don't. As your contributors add sites and annotate them with refinement labels, they'll automatically be included in your Custom Search Engine. If you aren't happy with a contributor, you can remove this person from your Custom Search Engine and this will remove whatever contributions they've made to your Custom Search Engine.
20. What is the volunteer process? The volunteer process is a way for anybody interested in your Custom Search Engine to contribute without you inviting them. When you set up your Custom Search Engine, you have the option to let people volunteer to contribute to your Custom Search Engine. When this option is set, others on Google Co-op will be able to volunteer to your Custom Search Engine. You can change this option at any time in the "Basics" tab of your Custom Search Engine.
21. How does the volunteer process work? When a person visits the homepage of your Custom Search Engine, and you've allowed volunteers, they can click on a link that allows them to make a request to volunteer for your Custom Search Engine. It's up to you to accept or decline their offer. You'll see these volunteer requests in the "Collaborators" tab in the control panel of your Custom Search Engine. If you accept the volunteer, they'll be added as a contributor to your Custom Search Engine.
22. Is there a limit to the number of contributors? Every new member of Google Co-op gets 100 invitations; you can see your current number in the "Collaborators" tab in the control panel of your Custom Search Engine. However, there's no limit on the number of contributors you can obtain if they volunteer themselves.
23. Can I create a Custom Search Engine to search my company's internal content? Currently, a Custom Search Engine only searches over content indexed on the Web. If you are interested in creating a search engine to crawl and serve results for your company's internal content, you should check out the Google Mini or a Google Search Appliance. These search products are capable of indexing your company's internal content and reside behind your corporate firewall, unlike the hosted Google Co-op service.
24. Why does my Custom Search Engine not show the results that I expect when I do a search? If you are seeing more results than you expect, make sure that you have selected that you want to search only the sites you provide, not the entire web, in your Custom Search Engine control panel. If you are not seeing a particular result that you expect: Make sure that you have included the result or the pattern matching the result in your Custom Search Engine. Beware of spelling mistakes! Make sure the page you expect to see is in the Google index. A simple way of checking is to do a search on Google with the site: operator along with a few words on that page as a search query. Please visit Google Webmaster Central for more resources. If your page does show up in the Google index, check to see if it is marked as a "Supplemental Result". Only some Custom Search Engines include supplemental results If these suggestions don't help, we would love to hear from you. Please include a link to your search engine, the search query and the result page that you expected to appear. 25. I am having problems getting Google AdSense to work with my Custom Search Engine. Now what? If you are getting a "Forbidden" message, your AdSense account has been rejected/disapproved. We do not give you the exact reason for disapproval but some possible reasons for disapproval include being classified as a spammer, providing incorrect information when setting up your account, and opening multiple accounts with same information. If you feel that the account should not be disapproved, please post on the Google Coop discussion group with your AdSense ID and we can try looking into it. If no ads appear on the results pages for your Custom Search Engine, possible explanations include: The search query did not trigger ads. If you have just applied for an AdSense account, you will not see any ads until your account gets approved (usually in a few days). If you have indicated that your Custom Search Engine is for a non-profit or educational institution, your search engine results will never have ads. 26. I have more than one Custom Search Engine - how do I know how much money each one is making through AdSense? You can track activity in each of your Custom Search Engines by setting up Channels in your AdSense account. By setting up a different channel for each search engine, you can view detailed earning reports for each one. You can learn more about setting up Channels here. If you are unable to create Channels in your AdSense account, please note that after associating your AdSense account with Coop for the first time, you will receive a confirmation email asking if you want to confirm this association. You have to confirm this before you can create Channels. 27. I know that my Custom Search Engine has traffic. Why is the Popular Queries list empty? The most likely explanation is that no query occurred sufficiently often to make it "popular". Our definition of popular tries to balance your curiosity about your Custom Search Engine traffic, and our requirement that we take reasonable steps to protect your users' privacy.
28. Do Custom Search Engines include supplemental results? In Google's regular web search, you may notice some results marked with "Supplemental Result" (see the Webmaster help center for more information). Currently, a Custom Search Engine will include these results only if one of the following is true:
You have configured your search engine to search only the sites or patterns that you specify (see the Basics tab of your control panel), and you have specified at most three sites or patterns. You have configured your search engine to search the whole web, but emphasize the sites or patterns you specified. Similarly, if a refinement inside of a search engine meets one of these requirements, you will get supplemental results when you click on that refinement. For example, consider a search engine which includes 100 sites, and is configured to search only those sites. Regular searches will not include supplemental results. However, suppose it has a refinement called "small" which is configured to include only 2 of those sites. If you click on the "small" refinement in your search engine (or include "more:small" in your query), the search will include supplemental results.
We're working hard to bring supplemental results to more Custom Search Engines.
29. What is Public Service Search? Google's free Public Service Search brings the power of Google's search technology to websites of educational institutions and non-profit organizations worldwide. Public Service Search features no advertisements, a high level of customization, analytics, unlimited queries, and the ability to enable site search without web search. To sign up, simply create a Custom Search Engine and select no advertisements.
30. I'm a current Free Search / PSS customer, how do I use Custom Search for my search engine? The best way to use Custom Search Engine for your PSS or Free Search is to create a new CSE and a new account with your username and password. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Simply follow the two step process of creating your CSE and remember to select no ads if you are a PSS user. Once your search engine is created, you can simply place the new Custom Search Engine code on your site, replacing the old PSS code that you have. CSE lets you easily customize the search results, look and feel of your new search engine and keep track of the traffic you receive.
31. Is there a limit on how many sites/patterns I can include in my Custom Search Engine? You can only have 5000 annotations (included and excluded sites or patterns) across all of your search engines. If you need more annotations, you may use a Linked CSE.
32. What is a Linked CSE and how do I create one? In a Linked CSE, you host the XML specification of your search engine on your site instead of storing that information with Google. For more information, read Linked Custom Search Engines.
33. Why am I not seeing the changes I made to my Linked CSE? You can refresh the XML specification of your Linked CSE if Google has not retrieved your new version by going to the Custom Search Specification testing page. Note that it may take up to a few minutes to refresh all files included in your XML specification.