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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.
I read this and assumed it was just an early April Fools Gag. Actually, I'm still not convinced that it isn't linked to April Fools.
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.
Of course, another product shut down by Google.
Where is the shut-down message? I just get the pricing page for GSS in Dutch. EDIT: I was also able to create a new site search engine.
> Where is the shut-down message? Try English version of that page: https://enterprise.google.com/search/products/gss.html?hl=en > EDIT: I was also able to create a new site search engine. The shut-down message says " On April 1, 2017, Google will discontinue sales of the Google Site Search ".
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.
Google are only interested in selling things by the billion or billion, therefore things like the robots have to go. This is one of those products that does not sell to millions and therefore it has to be got rid of. Not sure when the 'must sell billions' idea came along, it was before the Pixel phone but is a relatively new idea for Google.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since they pushed Excite out of this business, who will take up the slack?
Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/