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Comment by tbrowbdidnso | Hacker News Reader

What? Why? You can still do the same search by typing site:URL in Google so it's literally zero investment by them to keep it workinf. And these people were paying for it.

I can't help think this has something to do with their AMP articles. They don't want you to leave google, ever

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I believe that this Enterprise Search can be used for pages that are not freely available on the Internet. I've seen it used on portals where you have to be logged in to access the content.

Not sure how much it overlaps with https://enterprise.google.com/search/products/gsa.html or what the future for GSA is, given Google's track record for discontinuing products.

GSA is already discontinued: http://fortune.com/2016/02/04/google-ends-search-appliance/

I doubt it has anything to do with them not wanting you to leave google, more that there isn't anything in it for them.

I suspect they thought at one point that this would be a freemium product and people would upgrade to the white-label version, but maybe they weren't, or not enough.

Now, if somebody wants google on their site, they have to pay google, or force visitors to go to google.com, where google will show them ads.

Paying gets you white-label branding and no ads.

You can hide their ads with css. Probably against their tos, but I haven't been busted for doing it in 2yrs.

Why? According to pricing page at least 100 USD a year for basic product, that's why.

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