Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Google Site Search

Google has enhanced it commercial site search traditionally known as Google Site Search. Google site search is a hosted search engine which can be hosted on your site to increase the loyalty of your visitors, this can be used to find information on your site instantly. This is so simple that you can design a search engine for your site in few minutes. This site search box falls into the same category in which Microsoft’s Fast search and Rival suites from stand-alone vendors Autonomy. Google site search provides ad-free search results, it is highly customizable, it is also for the developers who uses API and who are rather interested to peep into the raw code for a search result and it also provides the feature of reporting, the basic reporting structure allows you to check how often people search with your search engine and what are they looking for. Presently Google site search supports the following languagues, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian.

Below are the new features which has been recently updated by Google on this product.

Date Biasing: As per the older standards, all the recent product documents are given more weightage than the older ones, but now the site administrator can set the levels of influence of their sites under low, medium, high or maximum category.

Synonyms: You Google Site search box on your site has now got the intellengence to find the abbreviations. If you type in fd, you can get Flexible benefits, if you type in car, you can get the results of cars.

Enhanced Indexing: As per Google, they have enhanced their indexing when compared to their previous versions. It is now possible to search even the deeper products in your site.

Top Results Biasing: You can now target the top search results from a specific section of your site, in a way making a catalogue of your site search.



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