Incident post-mortem: What did Google change?
- Internet industry in general & search in particular moving from growth to consolidation: focus on revenue rather than market share, seen across search engines
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value of our users' search to Google is small when they do not see the click-throughs
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Google Custom Search supported html results in the past
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Deprecated, customers told to use Google Site Search
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But then Google Site Search end-of-lifed April 1 2017
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Google Custom Search stops supporting html, forces javascript