Comments on: Using Google’s Custom Search Engine for Internal Site Search

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:12:52 +0000

Excellent article. I’d like to bring up a problem in hope to resolve it. I’ve attained the business edition. The use of the search engine is meant to be an internal one primarily. If user types carbon monoxide, they should ideally get all documents in our site that mention ‘carbon monoxide’. The scenario should ideally be the same for ‘Health and Wellness’, ‘Homework Help’, etc.

Issue 1: When I search (for example: ‘carbon monoxide’), I get some results, but not all. There’s a pdf that contains that result, and there’s also another page that isn’t included in the results. This is the case with many other search queries.

Issue 2: When I change the contents of a page. For example, I created a test page, that started showing up in the search results. Afterwards, I changed all the content, title, and meta tags of that page to be completely different. But, it still continues to show up.

This is a great tool, and thumbs up to google for making it happen. I do hope to get some further insight into the above issues so that my users can utilize the search functionality efficiently.

Thank you.

By: james

james — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:30:58 +0000

thanks manoj for this information its comes out with very good result for me to use Google search engine for internal search for my site

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By: matt

matt — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:21 +0000

we have used the google cse instead of our internal search engine for some time now. it works great.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:51:32 +0000

Thanks Richard – I think it’s definitely worth trying and it works best for a company who has a decent amount of their pages indexed in Google.

By: Richard Okwesa

Richard Okwesa — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:48:22 +0000

Hi Manoj,

This is a very interesting article and I’m going to explore this solution for us.

Thanks
Richard