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Google is celebrating the third anniversary of its Custom Search tools with a number of new features for webmasters looking to improve web site search facilities.
The firm claimed in a blog post that the new tools - Custom Search Themes, Structured Custom Search and the Custom Search Wikipedia skin - will improve user experience, save time on page development and layout, and speed up the search process for visitors.
Customer Search Themes offers a range of new customisation features, including a new set of layouts for search results, and versions designed for Android, iPhone and Palm Pre handsets. Drop down menus offer quick access to options for changing fonts, and other page elements.
Google software engineer Radu Cornea and senior interaction designer John Skidgel explained that webmasters could present results in a number of ways, such as limiting the range of searched documents or using certain categories.
"There are several results hosting options. Your users can quickly review results, narrow results to specific categories with a simple tabbed interface, and dismiss results, all without leaving your web page. We believe this will make it easier and faster for your site's users to find the information they are looking for," they said.
Structured Custom Search, meanwhile, improves the way that searches are narrowed down, and provides the ability to search for an author's name, for example, while researching a certain topic.
Finally, the Wikipedia Custom Search skin adds the ability to search Wikipedia articles and gather up-to-date information within one page view. Results are placed inline, and in tabbed groups, making it easier to see what is relevant and discard what is not.
The feature works with Wikipedia's Monobook and Beta Vector skins, and " shou
Web giant Google has suffered yet another outage on one of its most popular services, this time the Blogger publishing platform.
Brief messages on the Blogger Status site and Blogger Help Forum suggest that the service went down for around 90 minutes between 7.30am and 9am BST on 23 October, so it is unlikely to have affected many users.
A simple message posted on the Blogger Status site at 1.07am PDT (9.07am BST) reads: 'Blogger was unavailable for most users for over an hour. Service has now been restored.'
Millions of individuals and businesses use Blogger to manage and publish blogs, and the outage will be yet another embarrassment for Google, which has been trying to convince users of the stability of its cloud-based service delivery systems.
"Users were unable to access their Blogger accounts, and some people had trouble viewing others' blogs. We worked quickly to address and fix the issue, and we apologise for any inconvenience to our users," a Google spokesman told research firm IDG.
Google will be hoping that outages such as this remain few and far between, as it seeks to push into the enterprise market with its Google Apps online applications.
Pest control firm Rentokil recently announced plans to roll out the service to its 35,000 employees by next year, while Portsmouth University is set to do the same for its 30,000 students.
Large scale outages, however infrequent, continue to plague Google. The most recent was in September when Gmail users were unable to access the webmail service for over 90 minutes.ld" work on Wikipedia domains globally, Google said. Users will need a Wikipedia account to use the Custom Search skin.