I hardly got ay response for my question about custom search engine to search only in programming related websites. I asked this because, at times I felt that I have been spending more time in Google search result pages than in the actual pages itself.
As you must be knowing, Google relies on PageRank and people know how to play around with PageRank. So, I usually get less relevant results on top of the ones which has more authentic data. Apart from this, I also wanted to reduce the noise in Google SERPs for my programming related queries. That was the reason why I needed a custom search engine.
Since no one replied (or there was no search engines like that) to my question, I created one for myself – CODERED. It’s a Google custom search engine which will only search in programming related websites. Not anything innovative – Just added my favorite websites to Google’s list (which you can achieve it using site:yoursitename filter too, manually!).
But which websites the CODERED searches? Well, currently there are few good websites that I have added to CODERED. If you would like to add to this list (you can recommend your blog too!), please give your suggestion here. Thanks!
Of course, please let me know your thoughts about this.
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I hope stackoverflow answers most of the programming questions. Now I have started searching in stackoverflow instead of Google. Even if the question one is searching for is not available, new questions are answered quickly too.
agreed. That’s why I have added Stackoverflow too to the list. So, you get all replies from Stackoverflow and articles from other websites also.
Hey Veera, what about adding javaworld.com?
Yes, Chaitanya. It is added now. Thanks.
How about adding tutorial sites too? For instance, nettuts+ and WDD give nice ideas and suggestions for web development. There are many like this. I think, we need to categorize. But, Google CSE doesn’t allow much customizations.
Looking for a solution.
http://net.tutsplus.com/
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/
Yes, Santhosh. As of now, there are not much flexibility available to categorize like you mentioned. Initially I had an idea to create different search engines for each category (web, java, php etc). Since it involved too much of work, I dropped that idea for time being. But might be taking up at later part of time.
thanks for the suggestions. I have added them both.
I have had the same idea too, Veera. Just to check the possibility, I tried and came up with this: http://sanspace.in/tools/searchit/ Just a raw try. If I get time, I will try completing it. Expecting your comments/suggestions.
cool! exactly what I had in my mind. Also, I thought about tweaking the google CSE settings little bit so that I can automate adding new sites to search index. Working on it.
Wow. That sounds great. Eager to see that.