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Define and Refine search using Knowledge Graph Entities - Custom Search Help. The Knowledge Graph is used by Google Search to help users discover information more quickly and easily.

Define and Refine search using Knowledge Graph Entities - Custom Search Help

The Knowledge Graph has millions of entries that describe real-world entities like people, places, and things. These entities form the nodes of the graph, and are called Knowledge Graph Entities. Custom Search Engine supports using Knowledge Graph Entities to Define which pages the CSE searches. Create Refinements to narrow down search results within a CSE. Defining a CSE with Knowledge Graph Entities Using the "Setup > Basic" page of the CSE Control Panel, you can configure your Custom Search Engine to restrict search to only those web pages that are about specific Knowledge Graph Entities. For example, to define a CSE that searches the entire web for pages about Alphabet companies, first set "Search the entire web" to "ON", then use the "Restrict Pages using Knowledge Graph Entities" selector to add the relevant Knowledge Graph Entities to the CSE configuration. Try it out here: Google Custom Search.

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Búsqueda personalizada de Google. Recherche personnalisée Google. Google Custom Search: Automatic transliteration for Custom Search. Posted by: Mohamed Elfeky and Adel Youssef, Software EngineersTyping is harder in some languages than others!

Google Custom Search: Automatic transliteration for Custom Search

When you're searching for content in a specific language, it is often convenient to think in that language, but type in another, e.g., English.We've just made this easier to do in Custom Search. We've enabled transliteration in Custom Search for a set of languages, making it easier to find news in Arabic, Indian news in Hindi, your favorite Bollywood song lyrics, or local content in a bunch of other Indic languages - Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. Other languages will be enabled soon.The Google Arabia blog recently posted information on Google Ta3reeb, enabling Arabic transliteration in various modes, including within Custom Search.Here's a screenshot from oneindia.in, a website that has enabled transliteration in a set of Indian languages. Automatic transliteration can now be easily configured in the Custom Search control panel using the Language settings. How do I format my results to align right-to-left for Arabic or Hebrew? - Custom Search Help.

How To Hack Your Google Custom Search Engine. With Google Co-op you can create a custom search engine, in which you can define what sites to search in, you can place it anywhere on your page and set the desired colors for it.

How To Hack Your Google Custom Search Engine

There are still a few thicks that can be applied to the Google Custom Search Form to enhance your search. Therefore using more input or hidden variables you can alter the query sent to Google so that the results will be more accurate. This is the code for a Google Custom Search Form<! – Google CSE Search Box Begins –> <form action=” id=”*****”> <input type=”hidden” name=”cx” value=”******” /> <input type=”hidden” name=”cof” value=”FORID:11″ /> <input type=”text” name=”q” size=”25″ /> <input type=”submit” name=”sa” value=”Search” /> </form> <! – Google CSE Search Box Ends –> And now for the fun part where you will see the things you can teach your custom search engine: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Each of these syntaxes must by entered before the </form> line. Google Custom Search. Custom Search Help. General Tools. How To Extract Google Results Into a Spreadsheet. Irina Shamaeva recently posted a link to this page which talks about converting your Google search results to an RSS feed.

How To Extract Google Results Into a Spreadsheet

I decided to explore taking this a step further – if I can convert it to RSS, then can I import these results into a spreadsheet? With the assistance from Aaron Lintz and David Galley (to bounce ideas off of), I took a look at Excel and Google Docs to do this. First Things First – Google Custom Search: Use your expertise - build a topical search engine. Did you know that a topical search engine can help your users find content from more than a single domain?

Google Custom Search: Use your expertise - build a topical search engine

You can use your expertise to provide a delightful user experience targeting a particular topic on the Web.   Google Developers. Topical search engine is an engine that focuses on a particular topic.

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It covers a part of the whole Web rather than a particular website - this is possible because Google Custom Search allows you to include multiple websites in the same engine. This article discusses some of the interesting techniques for building and maintaining such engines. Why build topical search engines? It is possible to perform a very precise and robust advanced search using the standard google.com search engine, by choosing the right keywords, utilizing search operators and filtering results.

However, some users might not be familiar with these advanced techniques. There are few techniques useful in building high quality Topical CSE's: Google I/O 2009 - Advanced Custom Search Configuration. Google Custom Search. Custom Search. Topical Search Blog: Google CSE Synonyms. 100 Best Google CSE Videos. The Directory of Google Custom Search Engines. XML API reference - Custom Search.