Google lets you Create Custom Search engines.

["Hamaker, Charles" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1934
01563

Custom Search Engine lets publishers use menu-driven wizards to 
optimize Google to their own sites, and share revenue from the 
searches.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek

Oct 23, 2006 11:00 PM

"Google plans on Tuesday to launch the Google Custom Search 
Engine (CSE ...

"This is really a way to make your own version of Google Search 
that searches over just the content that you care about or just 
the content that you're an expert in," says Marissa Mayer, 
Google's VP of search products and user experience. "You can 
actually make a smaller version of the Google search engine that 
just searches URLs and Web sites that you specify."

The Google CSE refines Google Co-Op, a search product launched in 
May to let users syndicate their knowledge by labeling or 
categorizing Web sites and making that knowledge available to 
other Google searchers to improve search result relevancy.

Google CSE is (sic) more compelling because it's simpler. Google 
Co-Op requires some familiarity with XML coding, whereas anyone 
who has used a menu-driven wizard for software installation 
should be able to set up CSE in just a few minutes.

....

Qualified government sites, educational institutions, and 
non-profits will be able to create CSEs that are completely free 
of advertising. While that tactic will cost Google revenue, it'll 
also hurt Google's competitors, who might have sold site search 
to such organizations. Similarly, startups offering comparable 
search customization and community technology, like Rollyo.com 
and Eurekster.com, will face competition from Google."

Chuck Hamaker





N.B.
Available at: http://google.com/coop/cse  any google account you have
logs you in.

I just tried it -it's very simple to add any sites like jstor.org,
muse.jhu.edu/journals, www.annualreviews.org/ etc.  and JUST search
those sites. Quick personalized search engine...

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825