[LM_NET] GEN: Google Custom Search

[Susie Highley <shighley@AOL.COM>]

There was just one mention of this in the archives, from 2006.  It 
appears that google is making a bigger splash for "Google Custom 
Search", in which you can specify a body of sites that will be 
searched.  I read about it in a newsletter I receive (in that case, I 
think the originator might be hoping to make some money), but I could 
see this being useful in some cases.  You can set up an account and 
specify that it is for education and get the results ad-free.  For 
instance, say you have 10 sites you want to allow students to use on a 
particular topic.  You create the search page, and students are free to 
search within those sites only, but they are able to search among all 
of them at once.

Has anybody tried this?  Here are some links
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

and an example http://www.google.com/coop/cse/examples/Educators

Susie Highley
Creston Middle School
Indianapolis
shighley@warren.k12.in.us
shighley@aol.com

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