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I tried to create a Google Custom Search Engine http://www.google.com/coop/cse/. When I test, it never finds anything on my Office Live Small Business site. Any ideas?

Cole, I have no solution, but you do confirm my experience with every site I have seen here using it.  You may be the first to actually test it.  Are you putting it in an HTML module?  It may only be able to search within the module.  Maybe someone will chime in here and reveal one of those Custom Footer solutions...

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Check the Masters Forum for help and good ideas.
For beginners: Getting started with OLSB.

Has your site been indexed by Google, i.e if you put in 'site:yoursite.com' into Google does your website come up? I think Google CSE just allows you to use the Google Index and to specify which sites it should search. Therefore if your site has not been indexed by Google then CSE will not bring up any results. If your site is new you will just have to wait untill it has been indexed (likely to take several weeks) and then CSE should work.

I have it working on our site here:

http://1stoultonbroadseascouts.org/search.aspx

Although it works I'm not currently using it as 1. the site isn't currently big enough to need it and 2. it doesn't always bring up the most applicable results (and there is no way to directly control this). There is no point having something just for the sake of it, it has to work well and add value to the site.

I hope this helps.

1st Oulton Broad Sea Scout Group Administrator

I use it on my site as well, top right corner of every page.  Works great for me, plus I've set it up so the results are displayed right on my site, I use the custom footer module (still converting some of the pages over) but the HTML module does work as well.