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Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027
- alexey-salmin 3mo agohttps://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview Note: The Custom Search JSON API is closed to new customers. Vertex AI Search is a favorable alternative for searching up to 50 domains. Alternatively, if your use case necessitates full web search, contact us to express your interest in and get more information about our full web search solution. Existing Custom Search JSON API customers have until January 1, 2027 to transition to an alternative solution.
- faangguyindia 3mo agoI was using it for an ai agent i built for my use as home assistant. It seems like many competing companies might be doing same.
- ethancanterbury 3mo agoMicrosoft already did this with the Bing Search API back in August 2025, killed both the free and paid tiers with nothing that drops in to replace it.
- tmpz22 3mo agoNot affiliated - would Kagis search API be a drop in replacement?
- charcircuit 3mo agoUnlike Kagi, Brave Search's API has a free tier (1000 searches per month).
- Krutonium 3mo agoAll I'm sayin' is that Searx exists and can provide JSON.
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- charcircuit 3mo agoWhy would they do this as AI companies and agents have driven demand for other companies to want to integrate search into their products?
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- topherPedersen 3mo agoI commented the exact same thing. Couldn't Google save itself by becoming the search engine all of the AIs use? That's an area where I would imagine they have a massive moat & would be extremely difficult for startups to compete.
- gallerdude 3mo agoWhy would you use AI to write this post? If you can’t bother to write it, why should I bother to read it?
- mpalczewski 3mo agouse ai to read it. we're increasingly moving to world of ai reading the ai slop that someone else wrote to basically get back their original prompt.
- fluoridation 3mo agoWhat even is the point if transmitting two or three sentences doesn't dump five kilos of CO2 into the atmosphere?
- VladVladikoff 3mo agoWe really are speed running any percent to the destruction of decent quality technology.
- bogota 3mo ago[dead]
- ChrisArchitect 3mo agoPreviously in January: Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730436
- spottedmarley 3mo agoIn the search game the board has changed
- topherPedersen 3mo agoThat's surprising to me that they would kill something like this off, because LLMs are going to need search APIs. Why wouldn't Google want to be the search engine all of the AIs use? While we (people) may not need search engines as much as we once did, LLMs probably do need search capabilities. I could be wrong, maybe reply if I am, but don't LLMs typically need to search for information? For example, when I ask ChatGPT some obscure question about my Behringer RD-8 drum machine, an LLM isn't going to know the answer based on its original training will it? (even if the manual was out in the public internet when the model was trained)? Under the hood its searching for information and then processing it extremelly quickly right? These LLMs don't just "know" the answer do they?
- noosphr 3mo agoGoogle wants to be the AI that everyone uses, not the plumbing.
- Octoth0rpe 3mo ago> because LLMs are going to need search APIs Yes. But why would they provide that to their competitors? The winning move here is to allow gemini, but forbid everyone else. That's not a bad moat.
- Maken 3mo agoMaybe they intend for Gemini to be the only chatbot with built-in access to internet search.
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- remywang 3mo agoPlease link to https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview instead of whatever this is.
- oompty 3mo agoAnyone know if that will affect stuff like Duckduckgo search for its !g fallback or do they have custom deals?
- Georgelemental 3mo agoIsn't that just a redirect to google.com? Shouldn't be affected
- efilife 3mo agoit won't, it appends your query like this: google.com/search?q={query} you could code this yourself
- hartator 3mo agoThe article forgot to mention that Goggle is suing us, SerpApi the main alternative. Our take: https://serpapi.com/blog/google-v-serpapi-motion-to-dismiss-why-were-in-the-right/ https://serpapi.com/blog/google-v-serpapi-motion-to-dismiss-...
- charcircuit 3mo agoThank you for fighting against the web being locked up. The openness of the web leads to valuable network effects that everyone can benefit from. Everyone benefiting from these network effects compounds and provides even more value to everyone else.
- hartator 2mo agoYou are welcome!
- rbatista19 3mo agoPlenty of alternatives that scrape Google: SearchApi, Serper, cloro, etc.
- txomon 3mo agoI would totally recommend brave search. For us it highly improved our experience.