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Google CSE has been a favourite search engine, for multiple sites, check out some of our previous articles on using it within AJAX so you never leave your own site, well they have now added supplemental results for some but not all engines. To qualify you must meet one of two conditions, Be running less then 3 sites within your searches, or be using the standard Google index. Most engines are multiple sites so this perhaps is not good news, but for those who meet the require and have supplemental results within their 3 or less sites it will hopefully increase your number of searchable pages. It would have been nice if they had offered ways to switch on and off supplemental results, and a means to seperate them from the main search. For more information see the Google FAQ page here
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In a previous post I explained how to set-up a simple search using Google Ajax and Custom Search engine it wasn’t pretty but was simple well several weeks later we have started to implement a more complete solution on the Venture Skills main web site. To see it in action click here

The search box searches our custom search engine which includes this site, our main site and others that are part of Venture Skills network you can see this engine here but its not very pretty either. So what have been the changes and challenges

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Google Co-op has been around a little while but Google has just released in its full glory Google Custom Search engines(Site|Blog) for a full review on its features try Matt Cutts blog What I’m particularly interested in is the search api allowing results to be shown directly on your site as briefly explained here on Google ajax search blog they also have a couple of examples but they are long winded so I thought I would do the1 minute run through so here goes.

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