{"id":738224,"date":"2013-02-15T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=216952"},"modified":"2013-02-15T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:55:31","slug":"google-commerce-search-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/738224","title":{"rendered":"Google Commerce Search Is No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several iterations, Google has finally decided to kill of Commerce Search. <\/p>\n<p>The product was announced in late 2009 as an ecommerce-focused version of Google Site Search. It was specifically tailored to ecommerce and product sites. Here&#8217;s a look: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gj7qrotOmVY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In mid-2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/google-introduces-new-version-of-commerce-search-2010-06\">Google introduced version 2.0<\/a> with some new features: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snl1SM4KWz8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/google-commerce-search-refresh-2011-03\">another refresh was announced<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nje9fUcIkKc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, without an actual announcement, Google has shut the product down. <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/02\/14\/google-quietly-shutters-commerce-search-for-e-retailers\/\">TechCrunch shares a statement<\/a> from a Google spokesperson: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are making a strategy shift towards offering more flexible, easier to adopt modules for retailers, such as the Search As You Type widget, rather than a full site search replacement and therefore will no longer be offering Google Commerce Search as a core site search replacement product. We will continue to support our current retail customers using GCS and will try to help them on the best migration process to alternate solutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As TechCrunch&#8217;s Leena Rao points out, Google <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/spring-cleaning-in-summer.html\">recommended sites use Commerce Search<\/a> as recently as July, when the company announced it would shut down Google Mini. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=rAFJVbeEr5U:WZ4e0YiqgMw:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/rAFJVbeEr5U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several iterations, Google has finally decided to kill of Commerce Search. The product was announced in late 2009 as an ecommerce-focused version of Google Site Search. It was specifically tailored to ecommerce and product sites. Here&#8217;s a look: In mid-2010, Google introduced version 2.0 with some new features: In 2011, another refresh was announced: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-362Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}