Several years ago I switched from using Google Programmable Search (then called Custom Search) to using search via a WordPress plugin (so no longer had AdSense for search). I have now switched back the Programmable Search. However, what seems odd to me is that when I went back to review Programmable Search in order get the code, I checked out the Statistics and Log information and was surprised to see that hundreds of queries a day were still being made.
Does anyone have insight on how this would happen? I realize the Google hosted search URL was still active, but I have no idea where someone would find this (it doesn't appear in a Google search as far as I can tell). And even if some how this was found and someone searched, I have no record of any AdSense revenue for Search during this time, even though hundreds of thousands of queries appear (you would think some percentage of these would be legitimate searches and some would result in an ad click), and the ad monetization option was never turned off.
If anyone has any insight on this I would welcome your thoughts.
