Google to Shut Down Google Site Search

This is disappointing. I've used GSS on many of my ecommerce sites, and I've always appreciated being able to allow site visitors to take advantage of Google's advanced search algorithm within my own site.

Now it looks like the only option is to use an ad-supported search engine from Google, which would encourage people to leave your website and possibly go to a competitor.

Isn't there a better option?

I got this email about an hour ago. I'm really going to miss this for making the documentation on my website searchable. Does anybody know of a good alternative?

I just saw someone in another HN thread about this mention https://www.cludo.com/ as an alternative. (I haven't used it before so I don't know how good it is personally).

This is not ideal. As far as I can see, there is now no programmatic API method for retrieving search results.

This is the kind of thing that Algolia or Duck Duck Go could really benefit from.