Jawed’s Blog

Google will be launching a new “custom search engine” tomorrow — something I thought would happen after seeing the domains “IndexBench.com” and others a month ago. The Financial Times reports it will be similar to other excellent services like Rollyo.

“Marissa Mayer, vice-president of search products and user experience, said it was the most significant launch that Google would announce in the final months of this year. By letting companies and individuals build their own specialised search engines, it will also create competition for the many new “vertical” search products that have recently been launched on the web, she added.” — Financial Times.

Not only will this new service be used by the person customizing it, but the creator can also “paste” a search box on any website to share their search engine with others — and they will enjoy a slice of ad revenue generated through the AdSense network.

Google has been very active in providing good quality services to its consumers as well as to developers for free, in most cases ;). I love google for providing innovative ideas and features in its diverse products.

One of the newly released service is the new search engine codesearch for developer, where they can search code to learn or to solve their problems. This new search engine intended to simplify the often tedious and time-consuming task of finding source code online. Unlike the Google.com web search engine, this one crawls deeply into program files and returns snippets from lines of code with links to the file they belong to.

I am quite impressed with what Google has offered the development community so far. More information about Google’s developer tools and services can be found here.