As mentioned in the subject line, we’ve just improved AdSense for
search by integrating Custom Search. This means you now have more
customization options for your search box, including the ability to
tailor your search results and ads to your users and their interests.
You can find more info about the new features and options in our blog
post at:
> As mentioned in the subject line, we’ve just improved AdSense for
> search by integrating Custom Search. This means you now have more
> customization options for your search box, including the ability to
> tailor your search results and ads to your users and their interests.
> You can find more info about the new features and options in our blog
> post at:
When you do a search using your new features it no longer reports how
many links it finds. For example a search for "Cunningham" reports
showing results 1-10 but no longer says showing results 1-10 of
29,200. It is really very important that I know the total results and
wondered if there is a way to show that from all the options.
Note I am a large history site with many antiquarian manuscripts and
books and thus it is helpful to know the number of pages with a name
on them.
> As mentioned in the subject line, we’ve just improved AdSense for
> search by integrating Custom Search. This means you now have more
> customization options for your search box, including the ability to
> tailor your search results and ads to your users and their interests.
> You can find more info about the new features and options in our blog
> post at:
Problem, to display results within a page of one's site, one is
required to provide a minimum width of 795px for search results.
Under the CSE interface, I was able to use a width that better fit the
layout of my site, ~560px.
Is it that CSE provides the ability to place ads above, above and to
the right or above and bellow whereas AdSense for CSE doesn't and so
requires more horizontal real estate?
With my layout, I can afford to give search results up to 750px in
width but beyond that, I can't guarantee that the search results and
ads won't partially be scrolled off the page and I didn't spend the
time to get the layout to work just to have it broken to support the
use of something I can do other ways.
I do like though that this now provides many of the benefits of CSE
that were lacking in AdSense for Search in the past but the real
estate requirement is making it a non-starter for me. :-(
> Problem, to display results within a page of one's site, one is
> required to provide a minimum width of 795px for search results.
> Under the CSE interface, I was able to use a width that better fit the
> layout of my site, ~560px.
> Is it that CSE provides the ability to place ads above, above and to
> the right or above and bellow whereas AdSense for CSE doesn't and so
> requires more horizontal real estate?
> With my layout, I can afford to give search results up to 750px in
> width but beyond that, I can't guarantee that the search results and
> ads won't partially be scrolled off the page and I didn't spend the
> time to get the layout to work just to have it broken to support the
> use of something I can do other ways.
> I do like though that this now provides many of the benefits of CSE
> that were lacking in AdSense for Search in the past but the real
> estate requirement is making it a non-starter for me. :-(
> As mentioned in the subject line, we’ve just improved AdSense for
> search by integrating Custom Search. This means you now have more
> customization options for your search box, including the ability to
> tailor your search results and ads to your users and their interests.
> You can find more info about the new features and options in our blog
> post at:
> The old way; a Search box was setup with radio Buttons to "Search This
> Site", "Search another url" "Search the web".
> From what I see; now Search can only be set up to search specific urls
> OR Search the web.
> How do I set it up now so my Users can choose between searching the
> site and searching the web?
> Thanks.
> On May 5, 8:33 pm, AdSensePro Stephanie wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > As mentioned in the subject line, we’ve just improved AdSense for
> > search by integrating Custom Search. This means you now have more
> > customization options for your search box, including the ability to
> > tailor your search results and ads to your users and their interests.
> > You can find more info about the new features and options in our blog
> > post at:
> From what I see; now Search can only be set up to search specific urls
> OR Search the web.
Not exactly, but close.
You can set it up so that only the select sites/pages are included or
only search the entire web but, you can also set it up, from the
advanced search options link so that it searches the entire web but
prioritizes search results based on "included" and "excluded" sites.
You can also add keywords to be considered so that the results can be
more finely tuned to favor your site even when searching the entire
web in addition to the included sites/pages.
It may not be exactly the same as one was able to do in the past but
from my experience with Google's Custom Search Engine, which AdSense
for Search now seems based on, the new method provides a much better
experience for the end user while at the same time, giving webmasters
all the tools needed to help make sure results from their sites show
up prominently.
One thing that is new though, or at least it seems new to me, the
search functionality seems to index sites/pages which have been
"included" more thoroughly than normal Google Search so if there is
something an included page/site has that is unique, it is more likely
to be found.
I have a large site, and I want to give my visitors the option of
searching just my site. In fact, I first set up a Google search box on
my site in response to many requests to do just that by visitors. I
know that it can be done simply by adding my URL to the keywords in
the search box, and I tell that to visitors who inquire. But many
people don't know that and don't inquire. Of course, I can always
simply use the old code, which is what I'm doing, since I can also
control the background colors with it. But then I lose the advantages
of the new system. So why can't the new system allow me to choose my
own background colors and radio buttons, if I continue to want them?
> > From what I see; now Search can only be set up to search specific urls
> > OR Search the web.
> Not exactly, but close.
> You can set it up so that only the select sites/pages are included or
> only search the entire web but, you can also set it up, from the
> advanced search options link so that it searches the entire web but
> prioritizes search results based on "included" and "excluded" sites.
> You can also add keywords to be considered so that the results can be
> more finely tuned to favor your site even when searching the entire
> web in addition to the included sites/pages.
> It may not be exactly the same as one was able to do in the past but
> from my experience with Google's Custom Search Engine, which AdSense
> for Search now seems based on, the new method provides a much better
> experience for the end user while at the same time, giving webmasters
> all the tools needed to help make sure results from their sites show
> up prominently.
> One thing that is new though, or at least it seems new to me, the
> search functionality seems to index sites/pages which have been
> "included" more thoroughly than normal Google Search so if there is
> something an included page/site has that is unique, it is more likely
> to be found.
