Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers

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...