Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by happy-go-lucky » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:07 AM UTC

Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
enterprise.google.com

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by tbrowbdidnso » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:10 AM UTC

What? Why? You can still do the same search by typing site:URL in Google so it's literally zero investment by them to keep it workinf. And these people were paying for it.

I can't help think this has something to do with their AMP articles. They don't want you to leave google, ever

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by ipsum2 » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:16 AM UTC

Note that Google custom site search is still available: https://cse.google.com/cse

The main difference seems to be that enterprise has custom branding and is ad-free.

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Post by chipperyman573 » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:16 AM UTC

tbrowbdidnso wrote: post #2

What? Why? You can still do the same search by typing site:URL in Google so it's literally zero investment by them to keep it workinf. And these people were paying for it. I can't help think this has something to do with their AMP articles. They don't want you to leave google, ever

Paying gets you white-label branding and no ads.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by Animats » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:21 AM UTC

It's not ad-supported, so Google has to actually sell the service and collect money from large numbers of small users. Google is not good at that.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by Mayzie » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:26 AM UTC

Of course, another product shut down by Google.

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Post by _Codemonkeyism » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:33 AM UTC

For a brief moment I've read "Google shutting 'Down Side Search'".

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by pedalpete » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:34 AM UTC

tbrowbdidnso wrote: post #2

What? Why? You can still do the same search by typing site:URL in Google so it's literally zero investment by them to keep it workinf. And these people were paying for it. I can't help think this has something to do with their AMP articles. They don't want you to leave google, ever

I doubt it has anything to do with them not wanting you to leave google, more that there isn't anything in it for them.

I suspect they thought at one point that this would be a freemium product and people would upgrade to the white-label version, but maybe they weren't, or not enough.

Now, if somebody wants google on their site, they have to pay google, or force visitors to go to google.com, where google will show them ads.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by ptrptr » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:34 AM UTC

tbrowbdidnso wrote: post #2

What? Why? You can still do the same search by typing site:URL in Google so it's literally zero investment by them to keep it workinf. And these people were paying for it. I can't help think this has something to do with their AMP articles. They don't want you to leave google, ever

Why? According to pricing page at least 100 USD a year for basic product, that's why.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by orik » Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 7:34 AM UTC

wow - shocking;

I wonder if anyone will move into this space instead. hoping for duck duck go or a new startup.