Internet news October 26, 2006

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What if you could create your own version of Google, and do it almost instantly? Starting today, you can, sort of–thanks to Google Custom Search Engine, a new Google feature that lets you create subsets of the whole Google search engine, then do interesting things with them. In short, it’s a way to carve off chunks of Google and customize them into a specialty search engine with a specific focus.

Here, for instance, is a search engine I just built–it took about two minutes–that only returns results from PC World’s blogs, including Today @ PC World, Steve Bass’s Tips and Tweaks, and Digital World. (If you do a search, you’ll end up at a results page at Google–back up to this page to continue reading this post. Or don’t…)

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