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Google has a custom search API that comes in two flavors — ad-supported or $5/thousand queries (beyond 100 free queries a day). You can either use their Search
by oefrha 4y ago
Google has a custom search API that comes in two flavors — ad-supported or $5/thousand queries (beyond 100 free queries a day). You can either use their Search Element API (HTML, comes with standard Google Search UI, customizable) or build your own UI with the JSON API.
Obviously you’re talking about a consumer offering, but I just want to point out that paid, ad-free Google Search does exist and is pretty easy to set up.
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview
- gtirloni 4y agoI didn't know it existed, thanks. This should be the top comment for the tech-savvy HN crowd.
- whs 4y agoI wish someone would plug this into Searx, then we could reuse its UI. [Searx upstream doesn't seems to be keen on implementing it though](https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/2622 https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/2622)
- bryans 4y agoAn interesting portion of this is the Restricted API, which limits the number of sites to 10, but allows an unlimited number of requests at the $5/k rate. There doesn't seem to be any restriction on business use, which seems like a good option for paid, ad-free and anonymized code search, since 95% of the desired results are from three sources: GH, SO and Reddit.