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[CubsInNC]

Tim,

 

Google just created their "Custom Search Engine" where you can customize a google search engine specifically to meet your informational (or site related) needs. From what I gather, it's supported by AdSense, and the person(s) who have the CSEs do get paid for clickthrus. As well as you can restrict it to only search a certain site (or sites). I instantly thought of it as a way to have search enabled for non-premium members, as it puts the load on google's servers, and could put more cash in your hand based on AdSense clickthrus.

 

Here's there blogspot info release:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html

 

And the home page for CSEs

http://google.com/coop/cse/

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I just tried to make one for NSBB and didn't have any success. Definitely a worthwhile idea though.

[Guest]

Tim,

 

Google just created their "Custom Search Engine" where you can customize a google search engine specifically to meet your informational (or site related) needs. From what I gather, it's supported by AdSense, and the person(s) who have the CSEs do get paid for clickthrus. As well as you can restrict it to only search a certain site (or sites). I instantly thought of it as a way to have search enabled for non-premium members, as it puts the load on google's servers, and could put more cash in your hand based on AdSense clickthrus.

 

Here's there blogspot info release:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html

 

And the home page for CSEs

http://google.com/coop/cse/

First, a clarification: Search is disabled for everyone.

 

 

Second, I was just reading about this function this morning. I currently have disabled the google bot from indexing the forums (it creates extra load on the server. BTW - this is probably why the google ads are only a so-so match for the content on the pages...). I thought about allowing the google bot to crawl the forum again to see if the additional load would be that bad. If it doesn't hurt performance-wise, I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.

[Guest]

Well, I've updated my robots.txt file to allow googlebot full access. We'll see what happens the next time we get crawled.

[CardsFanInChiTown]

Well, I've updated my robots.txt file to allow googlebot full access. We'll see what happens the next time we get crawled.

 

If you set up a "Google webmaster tools" account (free) you can choose to slow the crawl rate.

[ZiggyTaxi]

Actually, Premium Members can still use Search to find posts from a Member Name. Or Non-Premium Members if you type in http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/search.php

[Guest]

Tim,

 

Google just created their "Custom Search Engine" where you can customize a google search engine specifically to meet your informational (or site related) needs. From what I gather, it's supported by AdSense, and the person(s) who have the CSEs do get paid for clickthrus. As well as you can restrict it to only search a certain site (or sites). I instantly thought of it as a way to have search enabled for non-premium members, as it puts the load on google's servers, and could put more cash in your hand based on AdSense clickthrus.

 

Here's there blogspot info release:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html

 

And the home page for CSEs

http://google.com/coop/cse/

I tried it and searched for "Hendry" and it didn't find anything. The setup is so simple that I think it's just not doing a complete index on the database.

 

:(

[Guest]

I finally have some time as I took a few vacation days this week to get a little downtime. One of the things I was going to work on was finding a way to get search active again. However, my main resource for looking up info would be phpbb.com. Unfortunately, that site is down due to a "double disk failure".

 

sorry, folks!