Custom Search Engine for MS Research Charity
14th October 2007, 2:18 pm
It may not be news to some of you but I am pleased to tell you you that the CSE from Google works well and is easy to set up with no ads on Google for a charity. This existed previously and was changed without letting the user know. So I had the search for non-profit organizations still running with the old settings and wrong links to the site. I also had no way of changing anything! It had taken so long to Google to notice that they were offering this to US non-profit only. I was worried to change the search (what is not broken…) but the improvement is that you can design your own result page!
I am pleased to show this to you:
- search for “rehabilitation” on MS Research search page (this is not what we have at the moment; the idea is still good to use
10/01/09) - see the results page.
I said it was simple to use but it took a while for the penny to drop as you need to write the url of the results page in the search page code.
November 15th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
you have done a good job in setting the Google search up - I’ll have to look at my private site to see if I can improve my offering.
However, as regards the MS site - you are left with a dilemma - you can make money from Everyclick, but you want to promote Google!
November 15th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Hi William, thanks for the comments.
There is a tab also and I go in easyfundraising.
Everyclick and easysearch are for use to search the web and fundraise! I use easysearch because I find it easy truly
Google searches just the website. If you want google to search the web go to easysearch and bling one penny in your tin.
No a dilemma; it’s a mad fundraising machine!
November 28th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Are you guys aware that you can make money from a google custom search engine?
As you have said, they are easy to setup. Once setup you can associate a Google adsense account to the search engine and then make money on ever sponsored click that your searchers click.
So you can setup the Google custom search engine to search your site and feature it highly and then searches googles index secondly while displaying ppc adds where available. Making you money constantly which you can then use for any good causes you see fit.
Drop me an email if you have any questions.
Simon