idea: custom subject-specific web search engines

Google has a new service that allows you to create you own custom search engines - it will search whatever sites you add to it's index. We could then create customized engines (and each such search engine created gets it's own home page as well as easily generated code to embed a search box widget in a web page) by specific topic or course using only select quality, academic web resources/sites.

We could offer this, for example, as one tool within a new "faculty toolbox" - i.e., when they request it, we create with their input, a search engine using quality web resources combined with an RSS aggregated feed on the topic/discipline and even if wanted, a blog for their students to discuss stuff informally...They could then embed this search engine widget in their Angel course in the appropriate place(s).

Here is an example custom search engine on American Literature I put together in about 15 minutes:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=011520625995792447741%3Aqepvcta8gfy

Here is the site for the Google SE creator tool:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

Let me know what you think,
Dana