Posted by mfb on July 17, 2008 at 7:48pm
I now have Drupal modules for all the big-three dot.com search services, Google CSE, Yahoo BOSS and Microsoft Live. All three can integrate with the core search API as search tabs. Lots of features are still on the to-do list (more accurately, are waiting for feature requests to be filed) like adding advanced search options.
I setup a (temporary) demo of all three here.
Looks like Google CSE has the slowest page render time due to its use of an iframe, whereas Yahoo BOSS and Microsoft Live have a web service model (REST and SOAP respectively). The web service model is also much more useful for all kinds of mashup possibilities.