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Roll Your Own Google: Customize Your Search Results With 'Preferred Sites'
ReadWriteWeb —
... , which lets users re-organize search results, already represented a major change to Google's approach to search. The 'preferred sites' feature, when and if it is rolled out to all users, will give users another option to customize their search results. In some ways, this new feature will bring Google's relatively unknown Custom Search Engines to the majority of Google's users. ...
Forestle Dropped by Google, Embraced by Yahoo
WebProNews Feed —
[image] Still Has Google Characteristics Forestle is a search engine with the goal of saving the Rain Forests. It was built on Google Custom Search , but Google revoked the site's search functionality claiming that Forestle offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links," which is not compliant with Google's policies. In response, Foretle said, "Well, we don't agree with that! We displayed a note at the top of the Forestle result page that says, 'only click on Google sponsored links if you are really interested in them.' Also we saved 0.1 ...
Knol: Too soon for Google scrap heap
Webware.com —
... there's a silver lining to Knol's low prominence: it's silenced those who feared Google would use its search engine to artificially boost prominence of Knol content, in the view of Google Web spam fighter Matt Cutts.
Google said earlier this month that people have created more than 100,000 Knol entries. And the company has added a variety of improvements:
• A scorecard to review low-quality or plagiarized material.
• A custom search engine on Knol pages specifically for Knol content.
• ...
SXSW Panel: Beyond Aggregation
ReadWriteWeb —
... From the panel, Marshall and Louis had new sources and gathering tips, Gabe and Melanie weighed heavily on how to manage information and Micah had some great suggestions on discovery of new information sources.
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Here are some highlights from the panel. I have gathered all the comments together by panelist.
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Marshall focused on using tools like FriendFeed, combined RSS feeds and Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs) to find the news he needs.
He highlighted ...
Research Tools and Techniques [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... I also use Google Custom Search Engines for targeted searches where I can control the sites that are searched. While a narrow list of sites to search will not work for every purpose, it can be very useful in certain situations. I have one custom search engine that searches only a defined list of ...
Google Torrent Search (Unofficial)
Google Blogoscoped —
... . (You can create your own custom engine and flavor it with specific sites you want to include in the search, among other customization.) [Via ...
Google Torrent Search helps users pirate content
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... While hosted on Google.com, the product doesn't appear to be the work of a Google employee. The search engine uses Google's Custom Search platform, which allows anyone to manufacture a page that can scan a defined set of sites. This one just happens to be limited to some of the most-used piracy portals. ...
