How
To Create Your Own Custom Google Search Engine
Creating a Custom Search Engine
To get started, head over to the Google Custom Search Engine page and click the Create a custom search engine button. You’ll need a Google account for this – the search engine will be saved with your Google account.
Enter a name and description for your search engine – these can be anything you like.
The Sites to search field is the one that really matters. Here, you’ll specify a list of the websites you want to search. For example, if you wanted to search both anindya-nandi.blogspot.com and microsoft.com, you’d enter:
anindya-nandi.blogspot.com/*
microsoft.com/*
The * character is the wildcard, which can match anything, so the /* characters tell your search engine to search everything on both of these websites.
There are more advanced things you can do with this box – we’ll get back to that in a bit.
After clicking Next, you can specify a style for your search results and test the search engine you created.
Once you’re happy with your search engine, click the Next button at the bottom of the page and you’ll end up at a page that gives you an embed code for your search engine.
You’re probably not a web developer, so you’ll want to ignore this page. Click the Google Custom Search logo at the top of the page instead.
To get to your search engine’s
page, click its name in the list of search engines you’ve created.
You can bookmark this page for easy access your search engine. You can also share your search engine with anyone by sending them the full URL that appears in your address bar.
Once you’re done, you can even add your custom search engine to your browser’s search bar.
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