Google Providing Custom Search Engine API

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Google now has an API for its Custom Search Engines, which lets you create CSE’s based on XML files you create. Remember that “on-the-fly” CSE we talked about last month? Apparently, it’s a demonstration of what the API can do. Anything you have that can create a list of websites as an XML file can be used to feed a CSE, creating dynamic search engines based on practically anything.
For example, you could run a script that takes incoming referral data for your webpages or websites, creates an XML file based on those incoming URLs, and spits back out a search engine of people talking about your website. Or you could create different CSE’s for different criteria on your blog, creating different search engines based on different rules, with the rules changing for every single page, all generated on the fly, fed to Google […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg