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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

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buro9 wrote: post #54
laurentdc wrote: post #25

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Amazing. It even renders more or less decently on mobile. I'm going to start a new trend in web design. I'll call it 56k design.

> I'm going to start a new trend in web design. I'll call it 56k design. That was pretty much my criteria when I was making forum software: https://www.lfgss.com/ It's still too heavy and slow, and there's still some things I could do better. But that's nitpicking, it's pretty good and when I finish re-structuring all of the code it will be a single binary install for those who want to use it, or a split-binary Web-U…

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

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Post by elena_brz »

nodesocket wrote: post #55
balsamiq wrote: post #53

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We've been using https://swiftype.com/site-search for a couple of years. It's great.

Pricing starts at $299/mo. Bit steep if you're a smaller company.

They dropped the free plan some time ago, although if using their WP plugin on a wordpress site, you can still make use of it. I also found SearchIQ but never used it to be honest, so I can't really tell. Algolia is quite powerful too.

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

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Post by gldalmaso »

allenz wrote: post #45
Mayzie wrote: post #6

Of course, another product shut down by Google.

Custom search has large maintenance costs--a lot of effort which really isn't interesting for any developer to work on. And apparently companies aren't willing to pay enough to overcome that. I don't think Google has any obligation not to shut down products.

They have no obligation, but it hurts adoption of their other products since it has happened often.

They should be mindful of that trend since they already have gotten a bad rep because of it. At some point in the future, when they really need it, few people will jump on their new band wagon.

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

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Post by brynjolf »

allenz wrote: post #45
Mayzie wrote: post #6

Of course, another product shut down by Google.

Custom search has large maintenance costs--a lot of effort which really isn't interesting for any developer to work on. And apparently companies aren't willing to pay enough to overcome that. I don't think Google has any obligation not to shut down products.

And we have no obligation to expect their next product to stay alive long enough for us to use it properly.

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

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Post by riprowan »

swang wrote: post #67

this is why i'm not completely 100% with google photos. i'm ready to spend the monthly fees to store all my pictures in its original resolution, use google photos to manage/search my photos. except i don't want to commit to using it and then finding out google doesn't want to support it and just dumps it. same thing with google voice. i use it but i've never committed to using it as my main phone number. maybe it's a…

I'm right there with you. Long term Google product user here (Android, Fi, Gmail, Drive, Photos, Etc) and I'm winding it all down, except gmail which will remain my spam-mailbox.

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

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Post by rndstr »

Differences between GSS and CSE: https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4541888?hl=en

As someone who just finished moving a custom search result site implementation from GSA (discontinued) to GSS this is highly outrageous. No access to the XML/JSON API is a showstopper.

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

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Post by torrent-of-ions »

laurentdc wrote: post #25
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #19

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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.

Amazing. It even renders more or less decently on mobile. I'm going to start a new trend in web design. I'll call it 56k design.

Oh, people have already tried this. Very recently I think someone posted their website on here saying it was amazingly fast etc. Anyone who used the web back in the 90s just remembered it as how things used to be. A Google search was virtually instant over a 56k modem. Now it's noticeably laggy on a broadband connection. If you used Firefox then web pages started rendering the instant enough HTML had been downloaded. None of this waiting for the entire thing and then running over it all with Javascript to generate the "real" render.
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