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Of note -- their company services seem to be that you pay them to return you Google search results via API. Isn't that against the Google search Terms of Servi

Of note -- their company services seem to be that you pay them to return you Google search results via API. Isn't that against the Google search Terms of Service??? If google wanted there to be a paid search api, I'm pretty sure they would just provide one. Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen these types of startups before, and then they vanish quickly thereafter....

josefx 5y ago
What do you even call it when the biggest web scraper of the world prohibits web scraping in its terms of service?
- victor9000 5y ago
  Hypocrisy that is borderline unethical.
tssge 5y ago
How are you sure they ever agreed to Google Terms of Service?
easrng 5y ago
> If google wanted there to be a paid search api, I'm pretty sure they would just provide one. They do[0]. It's not as complete though. [0]: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/introduction https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/introduction
- JimDabell 5y ago
  That’s not really the same thing. It’s intended to search a manually-specified site or collection of sites, not the whole web. It’s basically a Google Site Search API, not a Google Search API.
  - easrng 5y ago
    You can use it for web search though.