Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Google's Custom Search

It looks like .NET 2.0 has a lot of similarities with the Java world. When searching content on the web for a topic which is available in either technologies, you usually have to prefix/suffix it with an additional keyword. For ex: C# Collections

There is a cool alternative to doing this, using Google Custom Search. This basically lets you create your own custom search engine which will search for the specified keyword in the sites of your choice. You could also specify if the search should ONLY list results from yout site list or should just emphasise them while listing everything else as well. For ex: You could create a custom search engine that would search only in MSDN and CodeProject for .NET specific content.

One such dot net search engine is available here. This engine currently searched 62 sites (as of today) related to Microsoft .NET technologies. You can even add it to you Google homepage. My Google homepage has a search section that looks like this:




Options galore!

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