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Provide high quality search experience for your users

Tailor the search interaction in your project to your users' needs, using the same search index technology that powers Google.com, with accurate and blazing fast results.

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Site search for your website

Increase your visitors' satisfaction with easy-to-use site search. Make your site searchable in minutes with our Getting started tutorial.

Topical search engine

Search multiple websites relevant to your topic at once. Learn about guiding the user in the process of finding the best search results in the Advanced topics section.

Structured data

Use the power of Structured Data and Schema.org to bring users the right information in the right format.

What is Google Custom Search?

Google Custom Search enables you to create a search engine for your website, your blog, or a collection of websites. You can configure your engine to search both web pages and images. You can fine-tune the ranking, add your own promotions and customize the look and feel of the search results. You can monetize the search by connecting your engine to your Google AdSense account.

There are two editions of Google Custom Search:

Available APIs

  • Custom Search Element - easy to use javascript widget for your website or web application.
  • CSE/GSS JSON API - RESTful API to retrieve search results in JSON format.
  • GSS XML API - an API to retrieve search results in XML format. Available in Business edition only.

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