[williamstein]

> Google Site Search, which can be used to power the search for websites has started showing Ads (miserably even competitors ads).

Indeed. It is unbelievably bad! I was recently trying to integrate Google Site Search into https://share.cocalc.com/, and on many test queries I would see an entire page of ads for our competitors (or completely irrelevant) products. E.g., if I searched for "julia" (thinking of the programming language), I would get a full page of ads for jewelry! I ended up just building a little search box from scratch myself that pops up another browser tab with a normal Google search that has "site:share.cocalc.com" pre-pended to it. This seems to work surprisingly well -- there can be ads (it's just a normal google search), but they are at least completely blocked if you have an adblocker installed. What is the drawback of this approach of just using site: rather than Google site search or expertrec.com?

[melchi]

Expertrec - since it is built specifically to be used by site owners, will give you complete control on your ranking and crawling (which you can try contacting google support for a response). I wont complain about google search, (I was part of it and had worked hard to improve it), but remember you dont have any control when your new page or your modification will be re-indexed by google. you cant fix a broken result if something obviously bad shows up.

You have a clever hack, and I appreciate your ingenuity. You have got rid of the Ads, but still have the handicap of not having full control on your search. Why not use this time to leapfrog? It is just 9$