If you have ‘linked’ or on-the-fly Google Custom Search Engines, note that they will have stopped working a week or so ago. As planned and announced, at around the end of May 2017 Google withdrew the ‘linked’ CSE option (self-hosted, and a pain to set up and admin). They also withdrew the ‘cref’ URL-path item, which was what enabled an on-the-fly CSE from any page of Web links (handy, but not that often). It’s a pity to see the latter go, but apparently it’s part of a modernisation of the CSE service.

JURN’s various ongoing search projects are not affected by the changes, as GRAFT has been ported. But if you’re affected, then you now need to either: i) port your search tool’s URLs into a full free CSE, via Google’s CSE console (easiest way is .tsv files containing 500-URL chunks of your list, must be less than 30Kb per .tsv); or ii) use the free DuckDuckGo CSE functionality to get a quick CSE which only runs over a handful of URLs. The current drawback of the DuckDuckGo CSE service is that the Duck may not yet have had a good quack at some of the obscure academic sites you may want in your CSE.