Google Custom Search Engine
- CSEs do not crawl the web; they search in Google’s index – in special ways defined in each CSE control panel
- CSEs provide customized ways to search Google’s index to the end-user
- CSEs “understand” advanced Google Boolean search syntax (operators such as AND OR etc)
Google CSE Advantages
- Hide complex search syntax from end-user
- Prevent Google from displaying Captchas
- Provide the ability to sort the results by date
- CSEs have additional search capabilities, unavailable in “regular” Google
- CSEs have additional search operators!
