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{{Short description|Platform for creating custom search engines based on Google Search}}

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| logo = Google Custom Search logo.png

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| url = {{URL|https://cse.google.com/|cse.google.com}}

| commercial = Yes

| type = [[Web search engine]]

| registration = Required

| programming_language = [[C++]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html |title=The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine|publisher= Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA| access-date=January 27, 2009}}</ref>

| owner = [[Google]] ([[Alphabet Inc.|Alphabet]])

| author = [[Google]]

| revenue = From [[AdWords]]

| launch_date = {{start date and age|2006|10|24}} (as Google Co-op)

| current_status = Active

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'''Google Programmable Search Engine''' (formerly known as '''Google Custom Search''' and '''Google Co-op''') is a platform provided by [[Google]] that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorize queries and create customized search engines, based on [[Google Search]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Custom search engine &#124; What it is and Examples - Expertrec |url=https://blog.expertrec.com/custom-search-engine/ |access-date=5 May 2020 |publisher=ExpertRec}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=June 2024}} Google launched the service on October 23, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 23, 2006 |title=The Power of Google Search is Now Customizable |url=http://googlepress.blogspot.in/2006/10/power-of-google-search-is-now_23.html |access-date=27 August 2015 |website=Google News from Google}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2024}}

[[Image:Google_coop.gif|right|Google Co-op logo]]

==Services==

'''Google Co-op''' is a service provided by [[Google]] which includes two major functions:

The Google Custom Search platform consists of three services:

===Custom Search Engine===

'''Google Topics''' - allows experts to create a list of sites about a particular topic and users to subscribe to these lists. When a user subscribes to links and labels provided by a Google Co-op contributor, they will be incorporated into that user's search results when they search for a related topic.

[[Image:Google_coopGoogle coop.gifpng|thumb|right|Google Co-op logo]]

Released on October 23, 2006, Google Programmable Search allows anyone to create their own search engine by themselves. Search engines can be created to search for information on particular topics chosen by the creator. Google Programmable Search Engine allows creators to select what websites will be used to search for information which helps to eliminate any unwanted websites or information. [[Google AdSense]] results can also be triggered from certain search queries, which would generate revenue for the site owner.<ref>{{cite web|title=AdSense Custom Search Ads|url=https://developers.google.com/custom-search-ads/|publisher=Google Inc.|access-date=31 July 2014}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2024}}

===Subscribed Links===

'''Google Subscribed Links''' - allows web site owners to create a feed file on their websites, the feed file would respond to specific search keywords that releate to information on the website and it would incorporate the information into that user's search results.

Provided as part of the original service, subscribed links were discontinued on 15 September 2011.<ref>{{cite web|last=Eustace |first=Alan |url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html |title=Official Blog: A fall spring-clean |publisher=Googleblog.blogspot.com |date=2011-09-02 |access-date=2013-06-14}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=June 2024}}

Subscribed Links were web results that users could manually subscribe to. Anyone was allowed to make a new Subscribed Link, and did not necessarily need knowledge on how to create a feed, as a basic link could be created. Subscriptions were then available in a special directory.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

Google launched the service on [[May 10]], [[2006]].

===Topics===

On [[October 24]] [[2006]], Google made an entry into [[social searching]] by allowing users to customize their own search engine for their website. Users can specify the design and the sites to be searched with the engine.

Topics are specific areas of search, which can be developed by people with knowledge of a certain subject. These topics are then displayed at the top of relevant Google web searches, so the user can refine the searches to what they want.<ref>{{cite web |title=Custom Search Advanced Topics |url=https://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/gsa/docs/admin/72/gsa_doc_set/admin_searchexp/adv_customization.html |url-status=dead |access-date=31 July 2014 |website=Google Help |archive-date=September 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911134523/https://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/gsa/docs/admin/72/gsa_doc_set/admin_searchexp/adv_customization.html }}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2024}} Currently, there is a limited number of topics that Google is wanting to develop, namely Health, Destination Guides, Autos, Computer games, Photography and Home Theater.{{Citation needed|date=July 2014}}

==See Google Health also==

* [[Microsoft Bing|Bing]] Custom Search API<ref>{{Cite web |last=Microsoft |title=Bing Custom Search API {{!}} Microsoft Bing |url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-custom-search-api |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Bingapis |language=en-us}}</ref>

* [[Wikipedia:Advanced source searching#Custom search engines]]

* {{Annotated link|Yahoo! Search BOSS}}

== References ==

'''Health''' is a featured topic in the Google Topics service. Like all other topics, it is triggered by users entering specific queries, in this case, health queries.

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== External links ==

When a user searches for medical information, a number of options become available at the top of the [[SERP|Search Engine Results Page]].

* [httphttps://www.google.com/coop/ Google Co-opCustom Search]

* [[Google AdSense]]

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The idea of co-ops for a decentralized labelling/[[quality management]] system is very similar or idential to a labelling system proposed in 1998 by Gunther Eysenbach in the [[British Medical Journal]]<ref> [http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/317/7171/1496 Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL. Towards quality management of medical information on the internet: evaluation, labelling, and filtering of information]. BMJ 1998 Nov 28;317(7171):1496-1500</ref>, later called MedCIRCLE <ref>[http://www.jmir.org/2001/4/e34/ Eysenbach G - An Ontology of Quality Initiatives and a Model for Decentralized, Collaborative Quality Management on the (Semantic) World Wide Web. J Med Internet Res 2001;3(4):e34]</ref>.

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Co-op contributors to Google Health include the [[National Library of Medicine]], [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]], [[Health on the Net]], [[Harvard Medical School]], [[Mayo Clinic]] and others. The list also includes Enoch Choi as an individual contributor. Enoch has outlined some of the details on how he contributes sites on his weblog.

[[Category:Google servicesSearch|HealthCustom Search]]

[[Category:Google2006 services|Co-opsoftware]]

According to [[ZDNet]], Google Health is under the leadership of Adam Bosworth, former VP of Engineering at [[BEA Systems]].

[[Category:Internet properties established in 2006]]

== References ==

#[http://www.newmediamedicine.com/blog/2006/07/04/google-health/ NMM blog post about Google Health (with permission)]

== Notes ==

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[[Category:Google services|Health]]

== External links ==

* [http://google.com/coop/ Google Co-op]

*[http://www.google.com/coop/topic?cx=health_devel Google Health]

* [http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-05-11-n40.html How to use Google Co-op]

* [http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/google-coop-overview.shtml Google Co-op overview]

* [http://www.geocities.com/soapoperasoapopera/100A9aaaCa.htm Google Co-op critic and info]

[[Category:Google services|Co-op]]

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