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.
They manage that with Google Music, recurring Play store payments etc.
Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
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Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#12Note 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.
Since they pushed Excite out of this business, who will take up the slack?
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#13It'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.
They manage that with Google Music, recurring Play store payments etc.
With a couple orders of magnitude more users, yes. Willing to pay $100/year to remove branding on a search engine you add to your website is far, far less common than "willing to pay to listen to music".
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#14Note 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.
Since they pushed Excite out of this business, who will take up the slack?
From the top of my head, I'd say this is a great opportunity for Algolia.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#15So, more room for Algolia et al?
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since they pushed Excite out of this business, who will take up the slack?
From the top of my head, I'd say this is a great opportunity for Algolia.
Yep, that's a good opportunity for them, for sure. I'd start calling up universities and get a foot in for exposure, list them as enterprise clients, etc.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#17What? 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 believe that this Enterprise Search can be used for pages that are not freely available on the Internet. I've seen it used on portals where you have to be logged in to access the content.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#18Note 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.
Since they pushed Excite out of this business, who will take up the slack?
Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since they pushed Excite out of this business, who will take up the slack?
Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/
Wow. This page is actually strangely appealing. It loads fast. I don't have to click off to another page to get the news headlines. Ads are restrained to just a couple square boxes.