--- title: Google Custom Search Reviews meta_title: 'Google Custom Search Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 67 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Custom Search works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 67 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Google Custom Search Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Site Search Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/site-search-software) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 67 ## About Google Custom Search Google Custom Search enables you to create a search engine for your website, your blog, or a collection of websites ## Google Custom Search Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Google Custom Search to be incredibly **easy to set up and customize** , streamlining their search functionalities effortlessly. (2 reviews) - Users value the **customization options** of Google Custom Search, allowing tailored search experiences that align with their brand. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **efficiency** of Google Custom Search, benefiting from accurate search results tailored to their content. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive setup and customization** of Google Custom Search, enhancing their site's search functionality effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users value the **variety of results** Google Custom Search provides, offering them a wide range of options. (1 reviews) - Search Functionality (1 reviews) - Setup Ease (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Google Custom Search **expensive** and limited, as it only searches specified domains, not the entire web. (1 reviews) - Users experience **irrelevant search results** with Google Custom Search, which can lead to frustration and dissatisfaction. (1 reviews) - Users find the **results inconsistent** after implementation, coupled with challenging documentation that complicates the experience. (1 reviews) - Users find the **documentation challenging** to navigate, leading to inconsistent results post-implementation. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited search scope** frustrating as it restricts results to specified websites only. (1 reviews) - Users find the **slow loading** times frustrating, affecting their overall experience with Google Custom Search. (1 reviews) ## Google Custom Search Reviews ### 1. Newly renamed Google Search Engine **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John T. | Web Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** Extremely easy to use, not only does it let you customize what you want to see, but it also provides a highly quality search result. In addition, it is free to a certain extent, as there is a subscription based model for additional quality of life features. Gaining large popularity due to google presence around the world. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** While the tool is free to a certain extent, there are ads that get populated on your screen unless you opted into the pay subscription model. There are other competitors/alternatives to google custom search such as AdSearcher, Elastic Site Search, and Lineate. **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** While the tool is free to a certain extent, there are ads that get populated on your screen unless you opted into the pay subscription model. There are other competitors/alternatives to google custom search such as AdSearcher, Elastic Site Search, and Lineate. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest benefit of using google custom search is the vast amount of sites in it index. Other benefits could include, but are not limited to; generating the most relevant sites, advanced search, and a variety of file formats. The problem google custom search is trying to solve is querying the highest quality search result in a fast, and seamless manner. ### 2. Google search is the google search is the best way to look something up **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** it makes it so easy to search and give enough options to help you on your search. I like all the optional finds it has it really helps me to better understand what i am looking for. I believe this should be a product that everyone uses. it would help others out tremedously. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** nothing at all it gets me where i need to get. I have not had any issue thus far with google custom search. I wish everyone had a opportunity to use it because it can be very helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** to use it it ia a awesome part of the internet to find stuff. If you are un sure on how to use it, it is very self explanatory. Please use it...... **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** have any questions that is where i go it helps solve at lot things for me ### 3. Just another normal search **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** All the related results and suggestions at one single place Stunning faster than yahoo or bing search Pagination of results are clear **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** No images or previews of videos of the search results are available. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily solutions of my coding answers of my posted questions ### 4. For those who want to Powersearch on Google. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chitresh A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** -Auto-correct feature:- It automatically detects possible typos and provides a relevant alternative search term in its place. -Multiple Admins:- you'll be able to add multiple admin accounts to collaborate on your computer program by simply inviting them using their e-mail addresses connected to their Google accounts. Max:- 200 allowed -Custom Ranking:- Custom Ranking relies on three things:- Keywords, Weighted Labels, and scores. 1)Keyword:- it's a fast way of boosting certain websites in your search results and getting more search results in a few particular subjects. 2)Weighted Labels:- It tells the custom search whether to exclude, promote, or demote a site counting on the weights that you just apply to the labels. 3)Scores:- Scores are applied to individual annotations to temper or reverse the influence of the weighted labels. -Easy Installation:- Google Custom Search is incredibly easy to customize, install, and at last set it au fait your Cpanel. -Analytics:- it's very easy to attach Google CSE with Google Analytics, thus enabling highly in-depth analytical reporting. -Font Style in Search Results:- The font style within the search results may also be changed by choosing from a menu. -Image Search Layout:- you'll choose the format you favor for results of image search done using the tool. -Less Load On Your Server:- If you’re on a self-hosted website or blog, using the server optimally and ensuring that the server gets as less load as possible, is extremely important but By installing Google Custom Search on your site, all the search queries that your site gets, shall be processed in Google’s servers. This shall not only decrease the load on your website’s server but also will increase the speed at which the search results are displayed on your website, to an excellent extent. -Autocomplete Suggestions:- Autocomplete works on three things:- Included, Excluded, and Excluded patterns. This algorithm helps the servers to convey the most effective results associated with the subject searched. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** - Ads from Competitors are displayed frequently. - There is no dedicated customer support for free. To opt for customer service 24x7, we have to shell out a lot of money, and that's painful for small businesses. - Because of Slow Indexing, whenever a new post has been added to the blogs, it takes a few hours for google to index it and ready to be searched. - Google custom search restricts you to index only 25 Domain names still the databases of google is very huge which has more than 72B English web pages indexed already. - There is a restriction of 10000 search requests per day which is very much less. Competitors like dash have unrestricted search access. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many issues that this Google custom search solves. Some areas below:- - There is now a website to custom search all project and research-related work on scholar.google.com but previously there was no specific page to do that and at that time this google custom search came very handly to users. -Reliability on google servers can be made by companies as their server uptime is almost 100% and because of the size of company they are, they have great customer-oriented support that they are giving. - In companies, there are many things that are created or developed but there are not published well and it got failed. but because of great customer service and the best indexing feature, you can get your development listed on google in the easiest way. ### 5. Review on Google Custom Search **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Purushottam L. | IT Technician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** -Speed of searching is very fast -There are some many features that allow to control the autocomplete, promote listings, filter URLs, change UI, enable autocomplete and so much more. - Advance Search features like autocomplete, spell correct , stemming & synonyms **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** - Lack of customization - Unattractive “Google Custom Search” logo - Ads that distract customer **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** I recommend google custom search because of following : --> Easily Integrate your search engine on your website quickly. --> You can setup what content it searches and customize looks --> Because it’s powered by Google’s core search technology that’s constantly improving, always get fast, relevant results. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** As It is free and easy to setup,I don't need any expert to put google custom search on my website. Google custom search also have filters option so that it's more good. ### 6. Best search engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Purvi M. | Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** It's fuss-free to get the most appropriate search results, a personalised feed with recent news updates, get queries solved in no time and various suggestions **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** There's nothing I dislike about google's search engine. It's the best one and the only one I have been using for years now! **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** I have no recommendations for a platform which has already excelled in every way **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its the only search engine i've been using on everyday basis to solve every minor and major query. Its the only search engine I prefer. ### 7. Google Search capabilities for your website **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit S. | USC Transportation - Student Worker, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** Google custom search provides same capabilities as to google search but for own website. I really love how easy it is to integrate Google Custom search to an existing website without changing the design. I was really impressed with whole integration process. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** The one thing that I don't like about Google Custom search is the search results UI. I would really love to have an option to customize the search results UI according to the website design or theme. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Google Custom search to provide search functionality for a website. The benefit of using Google Custom search is that I don't have to build my own search engine, plus I also get to utilize Google's search engine which would definitely be good. ### 8. Try Google Search **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** I think the Google Custom Search will help people understand the quick and easy way to locate reviews available for people who are interested in reading the reviews to determine the quality of products they do look at. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** The least way to dislike is the location of where the custom search can be found and the locations of where to leave the reviews. etc.. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think it takes some time to do Google Custom Search and get used to the layout and the formatting of how things should work. ### 9. Find what you need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Macoy D. | Asesor y Analista político, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** The ease with which you can search for what you want and the speed of the answers **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** Not having a practical guide at hand, how to get the most out of it **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solve the imperative need to find what I need on the Internet easily and quickly. In addition to obtaining information available in a clear and concrete way according to my interests when making the searches. ### 10. Best search engine ever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahesh K. | Full Stack Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** Being a Computer science student, I use google custom search engine a lot and it helps me fasten my search. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** Search results could be better. There's nothing else I dislike about it. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** Whenever I want to search some particular sites or some queries combined, it used to be a hassle but after Google Custom Search, it turned too easy. ### 11. List Google search results **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phyllis S. | Web Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** Search in Google to find results for our instructors to check for plagiarism. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** Not the same results as regular Google search **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** useful **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** If we do directly search from Google by using automation program, it works not consistently. Sometimes it could get denial of too many requests. Then we tried to switch to the Google Custom Search. But the results are different from the regular Google search. Finally, we keep the Google regular search, with getting too many requests issue. ### 12. Great for Websites with large scale Content, but maybe overkill for small startups. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keith W. | IT Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** High customization and use of googles algorithm. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** Extremely overkill for small startup websites lacking content. I do not recommend this product for small startups. **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** I would advice administrators to defiantly give it a go, even if you may not implement the software until a future timeline. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** The only problem I could see this solving is saving resources. I realize the benefits are mainly tailored to large enterprise company websites containing large amounts of content. ### 13. review google custom search **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** It search very fastly and it is acurate to what I need and also some times it recomend for aother optiones I dont see before that search. It is also helpfull and the bigestsearch engie in our planet now a days. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** I dont have that much complane or any dislikes but I seen the Inpute must be inclusive for more rate than todays. **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** be smart it is ammazing tecnology and time consuming search engine **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a programmer so I used it for many aspects of my life almost all. by my occupation , to my life style ### 14. Google custom search **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashwin G. | Specialist Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** Speed of search, UI, analytics integration, free and easy to install **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** Lack of customisation, restriction on maximum APIs/queries calls per day and ads **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** Good for developing application with high speed search. Avoid due to lack of customisation, ads, high cost after daily limit of allowed queries and limited number of allowed domains to be configured. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise search application ### 15. Best search in the world **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** Customizaion is at peaks. You can search by image, reverse result search, google scholar search. It is a programmable search with more than one search query as input **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** THe results are quick enough but there are unwanted results some times. The results are irrelevant for topics that are uncommon. **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** IF I lost for something. Instead of opening multiple tabs and windows, i can do all at one single place ### 16. Great! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** It’s an easy way to build a website and create more traffic on the website. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** It may lead users off the website more easily **What problems is Google Custom Search solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increasing traffic to the website and that had been successful. Increasing the user experience which had also been successful ### 17. Sometimes the searches go irrelevant. However it is correct 90% of the times. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Custom Search?** The ease of using this is pretty awesome. **What do you dislike about Google Custom Search?** Sometimes it shows more related searches than the exact requirement. **Recommendations to others considering Google Custom Search:** As far as the accuracy is concerned. 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