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title: Customizable CSS interface
date: "2002-10-16T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1090
description: I examine AllTheWeb's Alchemist tool, which allows users to customize search result interfaces using CSS. While it is a notable innovation in search engines, I question if CSS constraints make Google's API a more flexible solution.
keywords: [alltheweb, css, search engines, alchemist, google api, interface customization]
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[AllTheWeb's Alchemist: customizable CSS interface](http://www.alltheweb.com/alchemist/). Possibly the first non-Google search-engine innovation I've seen in a few years. AllTheWeb lets you customise the look and feel of your search results. It looks quite flexible, but I wonder how much the interface will be constrained by the bounds of Cascading Style Sheets itself. Google's API may end up being the truly customizable interface. [via andersja](http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/10/15/alltheweb_vs_google.html)