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topic search is that you, and not some anonymous marketer, choose the sites you
want to search. This "tool" (for want of a better word) is amazingly easy to use and
powerful. As someone whose eyes glaze over at the mere sight of code, let me put
this in "user" language. If you are familiar with Google's site: syntax, imagine being
able to have a "canned" query that runs against up to 200 websites of your own
choosing and lets you run it whenever you like and use whatever keyword(s) you
want at any time. The query on Google would look something like this:
[keyword site:cnn.com OR site:dmoz.org OR site:amazon.com OR
site:usatoday.com OR site:cia.gov (etc.)]
The problem with Google is that multiple site/domain searches are cumbersome at
best, and they quickly run up against Google's 32-word limit. Enter Matt Wells and
Gigablast. As the creator and sole proprietor of his own search engine, Matt has the
luxury of being able to add new options easily. I think CTS is his best innovation yet.
Even if you are as HTML-averse as I am, this code is so easy to edit that it's a piece
of cake. To make things even easier, I have done the basics for you. First, however,
I highly recommend you read through the Gigablast pages below on the concepts
behind CTS.
Build Your Own Topic Search Engine of Custom Topic Search
http://www.gigablast.com/byose.html
http://www.gigablast.com/cts.html
Now you're ready to take a look at, edit, and try the CTS. Copy and paste this HTML
code into an application such as Notepad.
Gigablast Custom Search
Search News Websites
This is a bare bones version of the CTS code. Now you can play with the code and
make it into your own custom topic search page. I should mention that I set the "site
clustering" option to ON but you can
reset it to OFF by changing 1 to O. Once you save as an HTML file, all you have to
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