Google Co-op: build your personal search-engine in 30 seconds

Posted on | October 24, 2006 |

in case you haven’t spent the day under a rock you probably already heard the news about Google Co-op. the freshly rolled-out service allows everyone to build customized frontends to Google’s search-index for integration on their own website, similar to established services like Rollyo but with greater flexibility. users can restrict search-results to their own websites or extend them to the web, adapt the look and feel of search results (including pre-defined refinements), allow other users to collaborate on the search-engine or even integrate Google AdSense on the search-results. using Google Marker, users may add further annotations for individual sites. while Co-op’s primary use might be to replace weaker site-specific search-features, I can also imagine independent vertical search-products built on top of it. as always with big news in search, I highly recommend to catch tomorrows Daily Search Cast!

 

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