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July 20, 2007

UnGoogling Your Google - For a Price

Posted by Renee Oricchio at 11:00 AM

It's no secret, Google is actively pitching woo to small business. The latest overture to make you feel the love? Google announced this week it's new service called Custom Search Business Edition. Designed and priced specifically for small to midsize business owners, CSBE (because tech companies love acronyms) offers customized search engines for company web sites, and for a price, you can now get it without all the obnoxious google ads and branding.

Price packages start at $100 a year for up to 5,000 search pages. $500 a year covers up to 50,000 search pages. Companies can also customize the look of the search results page to look more like their corporate site than, well for example, Google's site.

If you don't mind the ads and need to curb the burn rate on your business, you can still use Google's Custom Search Engine (CSE). Not only is it free, but you can actually generate a little revenue from the ads.

Have a great weekend. We'll get back to business on Monday. - Renee Oricchio

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