Google Custom Search vendors and options
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Hi everyone,
We're in the process of finding someone who will be able to help set up Google Custom Search on our site and are having some trouble - most agencies we were hoping could help solely focus on Google Search Appliance, a hardware-specific approach that doesn't suit our needs. Specifically, we'd like to replace our current site search engine with Google Custom search, as well as configure it as deeply as possible for the best search experience
I'm hoping people could give me some ideas on who might be able to help, or the best places to look.
Thanks in advance!
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I've installed Google custom search engine (CSE) on multiple client websites. The $100 option is a good place to start, that gets you 20K queries.
Plus, over the past year Google has updated the features and UI allowing to easily customize the look and feel of the CSE. Attached is a screengrab showing the CSE UI.
Hope that helps!
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For a simple installation you might be able to do this yourself. We just paid the $100 for a low end account, went into the the "Edit Search Engine" link and completed the "set up" questions.
Then we went into "Look and Feel", selected some options, pressed "save and get code". Now you have the code to slap into the site. Put that on an experimental page, upload and test. In under 30 minutes we were finished.
If you are happy with how it works and start getting a lot of traffic you can upgrade the account to accommodate the higher traffic.
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Hey Josh,
I really do not think you need any kind of hardware-specific approach for this. All you need to do is some understanding of basic programming to do it yourself.
Please look at these guides for your reference:
https://moz.com/ugc/how-to-put-google-custom-site-search-into-your-current-website-design
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/tutorial/creatingcse
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/web-designer/set-up-a-google-custom-search-engine-for-your-website/
Hope this should help you!
Thanks,
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