Comments on: Quickly Search All Of Your Favorite Sites With Sputtr

By: david

david — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:06:25 +0000

Thanks for this great article!

I see myself use more and more vertical search engines. For example, I have been using http://greatpdf.com a lot these days for my research papers.

By: banana

banana — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:45:04 +0000

I agree that gcse is different. Actually I’m dissatisfied with cses because they work kind of different than google itself. I’ve been running four cses and poorly when I have a doubt that a search term is not found by them I know for sure I would find with ‘site:searched-site search term’ in google. Actually I was thinking about implementing a meta-search engine like sputtr just because I can’t rely on google’s cse. The best way to search in a list of websites is to make use of their own search engine…or as I think implement a search engine which makes use of google main site: search. I’m not happy with cse and I waited very long to give it time to index sites. Sorry.

By: Mohan Arun

Mohan Arun — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:21:25 +0000

Google Custom Search is different in that you can only include existing websites’ pages. For example you cannot search BlogPulse or IceRocket using Google Custom Search (you can add them but it wont work – I already tried) as those are search engines by themselves. I would add Serph, Flaptor, TweetScan, etc. to this Sputtr tool

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:52:32 +0000

Agreed, custom search works slick, as we have it implemented here. I don’t think this falls into the same category though.

By: phaoloo

phaoloo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:57:12 +0000

Thanks for telling this interesting tool.

Another way to search withing your favorite sites is to use Google Custom Search.

Simply create one and add your favorite to the Sites list, check the option Search only included sites, then get the code and embed to any blog or site you want.