Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson

Google has released the search volumes its trend for the late Michael Jackson. This is what Google blog says

""Search volume began to increase around 2:00pm, skyrocketed by 3:00pm, and stabilized by about 8:00pm. As you can see in Google Hot Trends, many of the fastest rising search queries from yesterday and today have been about Michael Jackson's passing (others pertained to the death of another cultural icon, Farrah Fawcett). People who weren't near a computer yesterday turned to their mobile phones to check on breaking news. We saw one of the largest mobile search spikes we've ever seen, with 5 of the top 20 searches about the Moonwalker."

Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson

Square your search results with Google Squared

Google always gives you a better search result and they are always work around to make it better. This is another dimension that you can think of giving out search result. Square your search result basically will try to identify the possible categories base on your search term and display most common factors of those categories. They the simple example for the search tern car in Google and then in Google square and see the difference. 

In Google it will provide you all the best links that Google can find in its index to you. But in Google Square it is display base on brands. Quite useful when you do quick research. You can always add more columns as you required.

Google is not the first search engine to come up with this sort of research friendly search result but always Google had followed the simple and efficiant way.

What do you think of Google square?

Official Google Blog: Square your search results with Google Squared

How to add Google custome search to blogger

Adding the custom Google search in blogger blog is quite easy. Let see how can we display the search result in the main page. That will add extra advantages. 

1. Visitors will not be taken away from your blog

2. Page views will be increased. 

3. If you use it with Google AdSense it will increase your AdSense earnings. 

Lets see how you can add a Custom Google search to your blogger blog and make the search result display on the main page (you can direct to any custom page as well)

First you need to set up the Google Custom search engine for you with AdSense.

1. Go to AdSense Setup  

2. Click AdSense for Search 

3. Select how you would like your custom search engine to work. Personally I have selected only my site as then the search result looks personal and make sense.  And click Continue button.

4. Then choose the Look and feel of the search box and the width depending on where you going to place it .  And click Continue Button.

5.  Then it comes to the search result style.  

     5.1 Select "Open Result with My Own Site" for Opening of search result page. 

     5.2 You can select the Ads location as you wish. 

     5.3 Always Choose the same colours pallet as your blog. 

     And click "Continue" button.

6. Give a name to your custom search and click the button "Submit and get a Code"

Then it will give you two codes. One is "Search Box Code" and other one is "Search Result code".

First Place the Search box code which will display the search box. For that simply go to "Layout" and Select "Page Element" And "Add new Gadget" and under "Basics" Select "HTML/JavaScript" and paste the "search Box Code" . Follow the same this for the "Search Result Code". Make sure you place Search Result Gadget in a area where width is greater than 795. So search result will display properly. 

It will give a cool look to your blog plus it will be really helpful for your visitors as well for searching your archive posts. Do you have any cool ideas around the Google custom search?