[Web4lib] Finding Google Custom Search Engines

[Drew, Bill]

Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz pointed out this tip for locating Google
Custom Search Engines (CSE) using this search string in Google:
inurl:cse site:google.com inurl:coop. It can be refined by adding words
to the search. The string initially gets you 3,360
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop&btnG=Search>  hits. Adding library to the string results in 88
hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+library&btnG=Search> . Changing library to libraries results in
70 hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+libraries&btnG=Search> . Changing to librarian results in 12
hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+librarian&btnG=Search> . Using librarians results in 15 hits
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Acse+site%3Agoogle.com+inur
l%3Acoop+librarians&btnG=Search> . The real difficulty would be in
constructing a search to cover all variations on library. Using the
advanced search of Google to build this search string, inurl:cse
inurl:coop library OR librarian OR librarians OR libraries site:
google.com, I get about 103 hits
<http://www.google.com/search?as_q=inurl%3Acse+inurl%3Acoop+&hl=en&num=1
00&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=library+librarian+librarians+librari
es&as_eq=&amp;amp;lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as
_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=google.com&as_rights=&safe=images> . 

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