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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 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....



What do you even call it when the biggest web scraper of the world prohibits web scraping in its terms of service?


Hypocrisy that is borderline unethical.


> 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


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.


You can use it for web search though.


How are you sure they ever agreed to Google Terms of Service?




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