{"id":17275,"date":"2017-02-22T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17275"},"modified":"2018-07-20T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:20:02","slug":"google-site-search-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/google-site-search-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Site Search Discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barb Darrow<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

This spring, Google plans to discontinue Google Site Search, a product it has sold to web publishers that wanted to apply the industry’s leading search technology to their own sites.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Once a customer’s allocation of search queries is exhausted, the account will “automatically convert” to the company’s Custom Search Engine, or CSE for short.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

CSE is a free, advertising-supported version of Google’s search technology, that provides similar features and functions to GSS, according to the email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is disappointing. The e-mail that I received seemed to suggest that I should look into Google Cloud Search<\/a>, but that’s a totally different product. To provide a search engine for my Web site<\/a>, I would need to switch to CSE. Years ago, I switched from CSE<\/em> to GSS because I wanted a better user experience and no ads. CSE devotes much more of the page to ads than a regular Google search; on my 30-inch display, the actual search results from my site start more than halfway down. Now, Google apparently would rather show ads than let me keep paying for GSS.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure yet what I’ll do. I have been using DuckDuckGo’s search<\/a> for this blog, but when I tried it on the C-Command site the results were much worse (less relevant and incomplete) than Google’s. However, that was a while ago, so perhaps it’s better now.<\/p>\n

See also: Barry Schwartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update (2017-02-22): There are also changes to CSE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-07-20): Google<\/a> (via John Gordon<\/a>):<\/p>\n

We are excited to announce an expansion of our Custom Search Engine offerings. We offer the following implementation options for Custom Search Engine.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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