Custom Google Search Engines
Filed under the "How do they make money" category, Google has released Google Co-op custom search engines. This allows you to create a search engine with various filters automatically in place. Consider this simple ColdFusion one. I set it up to search House of Fusion, my blog, and MXNA, but to not limit itself to just those sites. Google also lets you turn on AdSense (ahem, which I did of course), customize the colors, add it to your home page, etc. Pretty interesting.
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In <a href="http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/10/24/CF-Searc... to Peter Bill</a> I offered to set up a dedicated site for it. I got the domain cfhunt.com just a bit ago and will be setting it all up today/tomorrow. I'll link to resources (cflib, riaforge, hof, etc) as well, and other suggestions let me know.
# Posted By Joshu Cyr
| 10/24/06 2:00 PM
Didn't see it - thanks Joshua!
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 10/24/06 2:02 PM
Wow!Talk about Internet speed!
I read about this from Good Morning Silicon Valley, and the next email is from Ray Camden talking about how he's setup a site!
# Posted By Phillip Senn
| 10/24/06 2:04 PM
I am cross commenting to you and Peter Bell about this.Just posted my cfsearch site.
http://www.cfhunt.com
I am looking to promote (at no cost) some open source projects, so I would like people to visit my blog and post suggestions, send ads for their OS, etc.
http://www.usefulconcept.com/index.cfm/2006/10/24/...
I will be adding sites over the course of the day.
# Posted By Joshua Cyr
| 10/25/06 7:18 AM