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Custom search on the fly - presume it needs the page it is inserted on to already be indexed?

IJN Apr 24, 2012 3:59 AM
Posted in group: Google Custom Search

Categories: Implementation :

http://www.google.com/cse/tools/create_onthefly

Gives a generic "paste this code into your page" and it'll search pages you link to. Which is brilliantly simple.

I tried on a new test page with one link and it failed 404.
I tried on an established page, using exactly the same included content and it worked immediately.

Am I missing something, as I'd dearly like to just drop this on pages as needed, but the default error if the page isn't indexed yet is a messy 404 error which would send the users we deal with in web page creation running to the hills.

 Simon