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Obviously it will cost Google (or whoever else) money to provide such an API, and without any revenue from it, what would be justification for providing such a
by ig1 14y ago
Obviously it will cost Google (or whoever else) money to provide such an API, and without any revenue from it, what would be justification for providing such a service ?
If Google's API is too expensive for you maybe you should consider the Bing API (which is around $2/1000 queries). Alternatively if you want to roll your own search you can access the Common Crawl on AWS and pay for the processing cost directly.
- shail 14y agoThey can continue to put the same restriction that: 1) I cannot change the search result order 2) I cannot remove the ads embedded in the result and need to show the whole thing. That will provide the justification.
- ig1 14y agoIf that's an economically viable model, why not just insert your own ads and use that to cover the cost of the API ?
- shail 14y agoI am trying to build a free software (open source), so I guess what you are suggesting is another company in itself. For obvious reasons I cannot attempt to do that while trying to build a utility tool. Where will I get ads from? Google obviously. I will still have to pay for the margin. Search business works on volume, I am not sure whether the tool will be that useful that it will attract that kind of volume to get supported through ads. I think I am not putting it correctly in words but its not possible to do what you're suggesting.