Well, you've done it. You created a tab on iGoogle and dug around through the literally hundreds of widgets and add-ons and have created an interesting place to search for job seekers. Maybe you even got a little crazy and did some searching for complete custom tabs like the Twitter tab or even a tab dedicated to news or your favorite sports team - but that was just you doing your thing, right? All in the name of research, of course.

But you have to admit that at least once - even if only once - you wondered what exactly went into creating a custom search engine... and how you might use it for recruiting and sourcing. Sure you did. So what follows is a basic outline of what can be started using this Google based tool. I'll just focus on two of the neat features to get you started. Let's see where it goes from there.

It starts off simple enough. Just log in to your Google account and then point your browser to the Google Custom Search Engine page. Some of you that have been around a while remember this as Google Coop. No matter - you'll have fun here either way.



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I'm keeping it relatively clean here - almost "Super Simple" if you'd prefer.
Will I post more about adding some complex preliminary filters or secondary additions? Probably.
Will I touch on how you can 'socialize' your tabs and what that could mean for you or your team? Oh yeah, that's coming. But what I probably won't do is conduct webinars that do a deep dive around the Google Coop Custom Search Engines. If you're looking for that - you'll need to head over and talk to my friend, Amitai Givertz - author of Brown Bag Recruiter.