From b6695172c85bd1a39ae3b9a04e3a22be3c0894ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentin Lorentz <progval+git@progval.net>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 09:02:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Google: Add warning about deprecation.

---
 plugins/Google/plugin.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/Google/plugin.py b/plugins/Google/plugin.py
index fd130ac43..055cfa1e3 100644
--- a/plugins/Google/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/Google/plugin.py
@@ -94,8 +94,7 @@ class Google(callbacks.PluginRegexp):
 
     _gsearchUrl = 'https://www.google.com/search'
     def search(self, query, channel, options={}):
-        """Perform a search using Google's AJAX API.
-        search("search phrase", options={})
+        """search("search phrase", options={})
 
         Valid options are:
             smallsearch - True/False (Default: False)
@@ -103,6 +102,12 @@ class Google(callbacks.PluginRegexp):
             language - Restrict search to documents in the given language
                        (Default: "lang_en")
         """
+        self.log.warning('The Google plugin search is deprecated since '
+                'Google closed their public API and will be removed in a '
+                'future release. Please consider switching to an other '
+                'plugin for your searches, like '
+                '<https://github.com/Hoaas/Supybot-plugins/tree/master/DuckDuckGo>, '
+                'or <https://github.com/joulez/GoogleCSE>.')
         ref = self.registryValue('referer')
         if not ref:
             ref = 'http://%s/%s' % (dynamic.irc.server,