Delicious - to be eclipsed by Google Custom Search Engine?
Written on May 9, 2008 – 7:39 pm | by Ed Warkentin
It seems like I’ve been telling people about delicious a lot lately. I have blogged about del.icio.us before:
Here’s a kind of intro to the whole concept of social bookmarking, of which delicious is the most well-known site.
Here’s an explanation of how you can, from your delicious account, easily suggest sites for others to put on their own delicious site.
Here’s my first article about it, pondering about how I might use it.
And here’s the list of all the articles.
At the “World Café” event put on by CTAP 7 the other night, Alan November showed us a tool that has me thinking. It’s the ability to set up your own search engine…sort of. It’s called Google Custom Search Engine.
You choose the sites that should be in the bank of websites that it will search. Others can collaborate in assembling those sites. People can go to your search page, put in whatever search terms they want, and it will use the Google search algorithms to search within those pages.
How does a teacher decide which to use? You’d have to really be clear about:
- who would be using your tool (delicious page or Google Custom Search)
- what the purpose would be
- and other factors
I’ll have to get my hands dirty with Google Custom Search, and do a more thorough analysis on the idea of which tool would be best for which situation…
Tags: del.icio.us, Google, search
