Google Custom Search - Company Status Change to Non Profit

[mcmnet]

We've just had a couple of for-profit clients status changed to non-profits in their Google CSE accounts.
Anybody else seen this?

Could this be in reaction to Bing offering an ad-free search engine with Bing Custom Search API:
[blogs.bing.com...]

Our current theory is that this might have been a quick fix to allow all customer types to go ad-free on CSE

[keyplyr]

Thanks for posting mcmnet and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

Yes, a great development. I tried Google CSE but was quickly turned off by the top 4 ads spots on every result. We'll have to see if this is a permanent switch or something else.