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How to look up other people's Google Custom Searches


When I attempt to use someone else's custom search by its url, I get taken instead to my own custom search admin page.

How do I use someone else's custom search url?

For example, customsearchengine.com has an entry for the OpenDOAR search.

It gives the url as: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=016766439200934687091:ln-icm1qyko

When I put this in, I get redirected to https://cse.google.com/cse/all

Perhaps that custom search doesn't exist anymore. Bu the same happens when I try to look up other custom searches.


Solution

  • http://www.customsearchengine.com/ is super old, and not affiliated with google.

    Custom Search's URL format has changed since 2008, so instead of
    http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=016766439200934687091:ln-icm1qyko
    you can use
    http://www.google.com/cse?cx=016766439200934687091:ln-icm1qyko

    but that CSE doesn't exist any longer, so 404 error