google custom search engine on the fly

Google’s Custom Search Engine service (part of Google Co-op), today launched a new tool to help you to create a customized search engine “on the fly“.

Previously, to create a custom search engine using the service requires you to enter a whole lot of URLs (depending the size of your search engine), now, you just need to enter one URL and Google will do the rest.

The Google Custom Search Blog explains:

You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site. With that one piece of code, Google’s search technology will automatically include in your new CSE all of the sites you have linked to from that page, creating a dynamic, powerful and tailored search experience really quickly. Moreover, your new CSE will update itself periodically to include any new links added to that page.

This tool DOESN’T seem to be obeying the “nofollow” attribute.