Google offers site search for small businesses

20/Aug/2007 Filed in: Search and Research

Google introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page.
The product, Custom Search Business Edition, adds to Google’s growing portfolio of paid services for businesses. It builds on Google’s Custom Search Engine, a free, ad-supported product launched last October for searching within a predefined group of Web sites.
A key difference with the paid edition is that businesses can customize the search page with their own logo and color scheme. They can also modify results by manipulating an XML (Extensible Markup Language) feed of the raw search results, to guide visitors toward products the company wants to sell, for example.
The service is priced at $100 per year for Web sites with up to 500 pages, and $500 for up to 50,000 pages, Google said on its Web site.