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Google Custom Search Engine for Ubuntu.

November 23rd, 2007 | by Randy |

Google Ubuntu Search

Google Custom Search Engine for Ubuntu. - A custom Google Search Engine providing results from Ubuntu related sites

from the site: Foreword: I set-up this Ubuntu Search Engine as an experiment and to satisfy my own curiosity about Google’s CSE service. It’s ironic but I only found uboontu.com when testing my own effort. I’m also aware of the existence of ubuntuwire.com, however I’ve not been able to connect to this service for the last few days. There isn’t much difference between the any of these services [this is to be expected as they all use the same backend.] My version of an Ubuntu Search Engine has the slight advantage of having its results hosted on Google. Hopefully this will minimize the chances of the service going down or becoming unavailable in the future. Besides, you can never have enough Ubuntu goodness ;)

I’ve set-up a new Google Custom Search Engine for Ubuntu. So far it provides results from a list of 169 separate Ubuntu related domains. The usual suspects are included in the list i.e. www.ubuntu.com, wiki.ubuntu.com, help.ubuntu.com, ubuntuforums.org etc. The list also includes blogs listed on planet.ubuntu.com and various other Ubuntu related sites.

Firefox Tools
I’ve created a couple of Firefox tools to accompany the service.

See: http://crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine/firefox-tools/

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