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Google’s Year in Custom Search

Google's Custom Search turned three in 2009, and it had arguably its biggest year to date. The technology is powering "many tens of millions" of queries a day on millions of sites, according to the company.

As many others are doing, Google is reminiscing about the year that is almost over, and reflecting upon some of its accomplishments. The Custom Search Team specifically is reflecting on some of its highlights for 3009.

Google lists the following as key developments for the year in custom search:

• integration with several hosters to bring Custom Search to your doorstep
• enabled support for rich snippets, giving you more control over presentation of results
• it's now easier for you to promote specific content to the top of your search results
• we deployed contextual search within Blogger, Google Sites and Wikipedia
• automatic transliteration is now integrated into the search box
• improved results rendering flexibility with the Custom Search Element
• plug-n-play with themes for enhanced customizability of results look and feel
• added support for structured metadata and the ability to restrict results by specific attributes
• we got you ready for the growing population of users searching your websites with mobile devices, such as Android phones, iPhone, iPod Touch, Palm Pre, etc.

Google promises additional metadata support in the new year, with more results customization and other features for Custom Search. With that in mind, it may be a good time to give Google you feedback, if you are a user of Custom Search. They're openly requesting it.
 

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Google Earmarks $20M For Charities As Holiday Gift To Everyone

Some time ago, Google established a tradition of sending top AdSense and AdWords users holiday gifts.  This year, it's departing from that routine.  But people are going to have a hard time complaining about the decision, because instead, Google's committed $20 million to a group of charities.

AdSense and AdWords partners received messages today that announced the move by saying, "We hope you'll find it fits the spirit of the holiday season."  A special "Happy Holidays from Google" site was set up to relay a more detailed explanation, too.

All in all, it looks like 25 entities will benefit from Google's choice (and $20 million split 25 ways works out to $800,000 each if an even division takes place, by the way).

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Reporters Without Borders, and the World Wildlife Fund are perhaps some of the most recognizable charities, along with Feeding America, the Mango Tree, and Save the Children.

And of course, Google's still fond of its ordinary users, too.  The original message to AdSense and AdWords partners stated, "As we near the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for the time, energy, commitment, and trust you've shared with us in 2009. . . .  We're looking forward to working with you to build lasting success in 2010."

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