Retirement and shutdown Early in February 2016, Google sent a confidential letter to its business partners and customers, stating that the GSA would not be available past 2018. It began with the discontinuation of GSA three-year contracts in 2016; in 2017 there would be only one-year renewal contracts and no hardware sales, followed by a complete shutdown in 2018. Customers were expected to migrate to a cloud-based solution. References External links Review at SearchTools Analysis InfoWorld Review of Google Search Appliance, ISYS:web 8 Online Example of a Google Search Appliance at MIT was deprecated as of June 2018. Analysis of a second-hand Google Mini Search Appliance. Enterprise search Search Appliance Appliance Server appliance Computer-related introductions in 2002 2018 endings