Sphinn - Custom Search Engine adds new features

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Posted By: theGypsy 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google Searching

Matt Cutts - Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) just announced that they now power AdSense for Search. Another nice new change is that if you provide a Sitemap, Google will use that to improve the coverage of the custom search engine.

Now let me nip one idea in the bud, because I can already feel a few people thinking it: this is not a backdoor way to get more pages in Google’s index or to improve your search ranking. The official blog post mentions that. But I think this is a win for webmasters all around. If you use AdSense for search, the product is now better and more tweakable. And if you provide a sitemap, your custom search can get much better as those urls are incorporated into a CSE-specific index.

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from rishilakhani 158 days ago #

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I wish they had integrated adsense better into existing CSE's - I have spent hours adding the right sites to mine, yet I cant customise the adsense that runs on it.