[Web4lib] Finding Google Custom Search Engines

[Araby Y Greene]

We've had three CSEs on our main library web since early November. None
of them show up in search results. I'm speculating that there are 2
possible reasons:

1. We are linking to pages on our site that contain embedded CSE forms
rather than linking to the CSE homepages, where traffic would be
negligible.

2. We are not accepting volunteers for these search engines, since they
are site-specific.

CSE links:
http://www.library.unr.edu/searches.html 
http://www.library.unr.edu/specoll/mssgdes.html  
http://www2.library.unr.edu/basquebooks/ 


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Araby

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Araby Greene
Web Development Librarian
Getchell Library/322
University of Nevada, Reno
http://www.library.unr.edu/ 

araby at unr.edu 
775.682-5678

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Drew, Bill
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:35 AM
> To: Web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Finding Google Custom Search Engines
> 
> 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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