This is version 0.1 alpha of “Google_CSE” a Wordpress plugin that creates a Google Custom Search Engine using a Wordpress blog and its blogroll. (Read, my slice of the web to get the idea behind it.)

After you install (read the included readme.txt file!), use < ? cse_search_box(); ?> in your templates to display the search box. Please note that it may take a couple of minutes before Google updates its caches and your CSE starts working -this may be the case for any changes too, like adding or removing blogs from your blogroll.

As I said, this is still alpha. I’m looking forward to your comments.

Download google_cse v0.1.

Well, it turns out that my idea is old news

Google Custom Search Blog explains to add a CSE box in blogger.com.

I’m working on the WP plugin.

It’s not a novel idea, and it has been in my mind for years: there is a special set of URLs that define what I call my “personal slice of the web”. These are the sites that form my blogroll, the feeds I’m subscribed to, the links I tag using del.icio.us, the URLs included in my browser history, etc.

For each one of us, this “personal slice of the web” is much more important and much more familiar than the rest of the web. I have always thought that we should have better tools to manage this “slice”. We should be able to view and visualize it better, search it, share it, etc.

During the last couple of days I have been fooling arround with Google Custom Search Engine. A wordpress plugin that creates a CSE using your blogroll is almost ready, it just needs some polishing (you can see it here in action).

I have also written some code to create a Google CSE based on my del.icio.us links (a demo is here) but this needs more work -it’s just a couple of quick’n'dirty scripts.

The Web is such a big place compared to the desktop.

I think the main feature web apps bring to users is “sharing”. The share button is the equivelent of copy-paste on the desktop. Copy-paste was (AFAIC) the main feature GUI brought to desktop over CLI. It created a whole culture, the “copy-paste culture” [1]

The “share” option is why I use web apps -Google Docs is a great example of this. I think that web apps will be judged more and more on how easy and intuitive they make sharing. From simple embedding into web pages and blogs, to fine-grained sharing with access rights among team members.

Of course, if it’s sharable, it should be mashable too

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[1] any related links? Couldn’t find any!