Today, Google announced a new service called Co-op. The service allows you to create a customized search engine based on a set of parameters, including the ability to:
- Search set of restricted sites
- Allowing certain sites to climb higher up the set of results
- Customize the search and results pages
- Allow contributers to submit relevant websites
To try this out, I set up a custom search service for Planet Ham. Now when you use the search engine on the site, or the direct link, the results returned favor the the websites on the blog roll. Over the next few days I will add more sites about our hobby. This should provide more relevant results than the run of the mill Google search.
Hopefully, with a bit of tweaking, it will become a useful resource. If you’d like to contribute, please feel free to volunteer using the link on the search engine front page.