Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers
hmokiguess
48 points
7 comments
May 04, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
tech234a
The article suggests Common Crawl as a replacement which probably doesn’t make sense on its own due to low update frequency (monthly) and somewhat limited crawl scope. (Looks like the sentence following the suggestion addresses this somewhat.)
elektor
Is this good for Kagi?
iberator
Good. Duck google and use other indexing. ps. Modern AI is in reality talking web search engine imo.
mamman777
I just see another small competitor becoming big by taking over
janalsncm
This was announced in January. https://programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com/2026/01/upda...