Re: [LM_NET] GEN: Google Custom Search

[Naomi Bates <naomi.bates@GMAIL.COM>]

You can also do with the a customizable search engine called rollyo.com.
Select the sites, add it to your personalized search engine and direct
students to it.  I've used it and created one for school librarians.
Naomi Bates
Northwest High School
Justin, TX
naomi.bates@gmail.com
817-215-0203

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Susie Highley <shighley@aol.com> wrote:

> 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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