Site-flavored search

What is it? Is it worth it?

[Hubie]

Google's explanation of site flavored search confuses me, and I'm always skeptical about how they explain some of their features.

Is it worth anything to do site-flavored search? or can this limit the effectiveness of the google search box on my site...

[Tastatura]

see this from couple of years back
[webmasterworld.com...]

this paper *might* provide a bit more insight how this search work (pdf):
[dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090...]

[Hubie]

you posted a broken link

anyone else have comments on this?

[Tastatura]

you posted a broken link

which link is broken? I just checked both and they work for me

[Hubie]

this was supposed to answer my question?

[webmasterworld.com...]