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Google Custom Search JSON API shutdown: the January 2027 deadline and the replacement options

SERP API•Sep 2, 2026

Google Custom Search API Shutdown: What to Use Instead

Google's Custom Search JSON API closes to existing customers on January 1, 2027. The official replacement is site-restricted. Here is the real migration.

Migrating to cloro: request, response and cost mapping from six SERP APIs

SERP API•Aug 30, 2026

Migrate to cloro: Field-Level Guides for 6 SERP APIs

Request, response and cost mappings for moving to cloro from SerpApi, DataForSEO, Serper, Bright Data, ScraperAPI or Oxylabs, with working Python.

A defender running scoped Google dorking queries against their own domains to find indexed exposures before attackers do, then routing each finding to remediation and continuous monitoring

OSINT•Jul 11, 2026

Google Dorking for Defenders: Find Your Exposures

Attackers use Google dorking to find your exposed config files, forgotten subdomains, and indexed admin panels. This guide flips it: run the same operators against your own domains, automate the sweep with an API, and alert the day a new exposure gets indexed. All own-scope, all defensive.

Google News RSS feed URL anatomy and limits

News•Jun 29, 2026

Google News RSS Feed: How It Works and Its Limits

The definitive reference for Google News RSS feeds: search and topic URL anatomy, geo/language params, the documented limits, and measured reliability data.

The asset-discovery layers of external attack surface management, with the search-indexed exposure layer highlighted as a complementary input alongside DNS, certificate, cloud, and port scanning

OSINT•Jun 27, 2026

Attack Surface Management: The Search-Indexed Layer

In an own-scope study of cloro.dev, Certificate Transparency surfaced 15 hostnames but only 3 were search-indexed. A defensive site: sweep found ~20 exposed URL paths host enumeration never sees. The two layers are complementary, not redundant.

Google's Verifying Your Request interstitial page

Google•Jun 26, 2026

Google "Verifying Your Request": What It Means, How to Fix

Google's 'Verifying your request' page comes back as HTTP 200 with no search results, so scrapers log it as a success. What sets it off and how to get through it.