Create Custom Search Engine for your Websites for Free

How to Create a Custom Search Engine

Programmable Search Engine is a Google Official Product which helps you to create your own custom search engine for your site or you can make a custom search engine by adding your domain sites.

What is Programmable Search Engine?

Programmable Search Engine is also referred as Custom Search Engine or Google CSE. With this Google Custom Search Engine you can create your own search engine like google and also help your website or blog visitors to find what they need on your website and also with this you can make your own google personalized search results by customizing the URL patterns of your site.

Note: You can add multiple sites to custom search. There is no limit.

How many search engine can be added?

There is no limit to add custom search engines. You can add nth number of search engines in Google Programmable Search.

You can add any of the following URL patterns:

Individual pages: www.example.com/page.html

Entire site: www.mysite.com/*

Parts of site: www.example.com/docs/* or www.example.com/docs/

Entire domain: *.example.com

You can access the Programmable Search Engine at https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/

How to Create a Custom Search Engine for your Site?

Enabling a custom search engine for your blogger website or blog. This allows blogger users to monetize the search by connecting custom search engine URL to Google AdSense account.

Implementation:

Step 1: open Programmable Search or use the following link to open https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/

Step 2: click on preview

Step 3: click on Create your first search engine! or you can also click on Add to create a new search engine.

Step 4: Now provide the basic information about your engine in create a new search engine page.

Name your search engine in search engine name box

Choose Search specific sites or pages to search only the public sites and pages that are specified.

Add your specific sites or pages and click on Add button

Now for Search Setting, enable toggle on for both image search and safe search.

Verify I'm a robot and click on Create.

Step 5: Once created it will return a message that "Your new search engine has been created" and also a code snippet.

Click on preview to check check your newly created search engine.

To check the preview your blog Custom Search Engine click here: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=72a3426ff86d241b8

To more search engine customization click on Customise button.

Customise your Google Custom Search Engine Results

Advantages of Google Custom Search Engine:

Here are the few example of using Custom Search Engine

You can earn revenue by showing relevant ads with verified AdSense account.

You can use pre-built themes, or even you can design your own search results page from scratch.

You can allow users to search only of your included sites.

Make money with your website by applying to google AdSense. Use AdSense to monetize search results pages from relevant ads on your site. Search your organization’s internal content with Cloud.

Designed for enterprise, Cloud Search helps your employees quickly, easily, and securely find information across your business.

Match the design to your site - Choose from several pre-built themes, or design your own search results page from scratch.

Choose sites to include - Decide if you want users to search only your website, or include other sites on the web. Integrate your search engine on your website quickly.

High-quality search results - Because it’s powered by Google’s core search technology that’s constantly improving, you always get fast, relevant results.

Customizable functionality - You program your search engine, so you decide what content it searches and how it looks. Add a customizable search box to your web pages and show fast, relevant results powered by Google Search.

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