Google Custom Search and Google Gadgets

http://www.google.com/cse/  provides a facility to offer custom search engine to your website, blog. It also allows you to offer to your readers custom Google search engines that search specified sites and provide results.


For example the following the two custom search engines one for searching Knol and the other for searching YouTube

Google Knol Search Facility

YouTube Search Facility

Google Gadgets

http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/basic.html  provides information on Gadgets.

Hosting the gadgets requires an editor and Google provided   http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/tools.html#GGE     for hosting gadgets