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evofuse

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Jan 1, 2010, 5:05:01 PM1/1/10
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My search site is at http://socialnetlookup.com/user-search. My users
run a search for people on my site and I return my own results first
then I run the search using the the search API via AJAX. It is a user
generated search and I want to monetize it better using Adsense for
search to get the targeted ads.

Basically I am just calling the $_GET from with PHP and passing it to
to the search API. I don't think I am breaking any rules and I want to
stay within the guidelines of Search API and Adsense. I know I could
make more money using the search targeted Adsense based off of what
people are searching on my site.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Wes/

Adam Feldman

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Jan 4, 2010, 2:20:33 PM1/4/10
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Hi Wes,

It looks like you're using the Search Control, with a number of
searchers, each consisting of a site restricted search. One way for
you to get the ads you're looking for would be to use the Custom
Search Control instead:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/customsearch/index.html

If you set up a CSE with all of the appropriate refinements, I believe
that you'll be able to provide similar results to your users, but will
get AdSense ads targeted to the searches being conducted.

Is this what you're looking for?

Adam

On Jan 1, 2:05 pm, evofuse <wesn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My search site is athttp://socialnetlookup.com/user-search. My users

Adam Feldman

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Jan 5, 2010, 1:33:11 PM1/5/10
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To follow up on my response, you can certainly customize the Custom
Search Control in a variety of ways (as described in the docs), and
you can also utilize your own search box. Read this blog post for
more information:
http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2009/08/custom-search-with-custom-style-peanut.html

Cheers,
Adam

On Jan 4, 11:20 am, Adam Feldman <adam.feld...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Wes,
>
> It looks like you're using the Search Control, with a number of
> searchers, each consisting of a site restricted search.  One way for
> you to get the ads you're looking for would be to use the Custom

> Search Control instead:http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/customsearch/ind...

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