# Why is Google hiding blog search?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-hiding-blog-search/618756>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 14, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-hiding-blog-search/618756 "2012-04-14T13:30:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-hiding-blog-search/618756/1 "2012-04-14T13:30:34Z")

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Back when Google first made blog search available, it was heralded with fanfare. But now it’s difficult to find it. It’s hidden way down under “more” and it’s not on the mobile version at all. What’s up with that?

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-hiding-blog-search/618756/2 "2012-04-14T13:48:41Z")

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I assume it’s the same reason they’re now hiding [Google Scholar](http://scholar.google.com/) - and I assume that reason has to do with a combination of ad revenue, wanting to push people to Google+ and things like that. Or they’re trying to figure out how what products to kill - not enough people bother to find those services? Kill them.