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Web publishers can pick which keywords and sites to search, then color-coordinates results to match their motif.
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[PutchSearch]

A Google Custom Search Engine Experiment

Thanks for the heads up!

Upon checking this out, three features stood out:
1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results
2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker
3) Anyone can volunteer to help

So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results.

Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?)

The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com

[kamchoor]

Wow - I did not think I'd ever see Google copy Microsoft

Analysis:
You are hearing it here first folks but I'll say it like it is.

Last week (or at least that's when I learned about this), Microsoft released the exact same concept as part of Live.com. I created a custom search myself.

Today, I see Google copying their innovation.

For as long as I can recall, Micrsoft copied other people's ideas and pushed it down through its marketing channels/community base. Today, we am seeing Google do the exact same thing.

What's interesting is that Micrsoft, no longer the Big Kid on the street, must innovate to survive. While Google, the new Big Kid on the block ,finds it easier to buyout or copy ideas to keep it's lead.

I always thought Google more geared towards the Blue Ocean strategy and not Red like Uncle Billy.

Very very interesting, no doubt.

[kamchoor]

I Stand Corrected

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=345

Google came up with this first! - not Uncle Billy.

Google's 'originality'

Other than the search engine and its adserving technology, pretty much everything google has comes from the outside (Google Earth, 'Writely', GooTube, etc).

[ITsover]

So now all the wackjobs and purists can blacklist anything on the net??

hmmph...