Alternatives to the Google Search API

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Till picture Till · Apr 19, 2011 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

If someone searches for a keyword on our website, we currently pull in Google's search results. We have done this using Google's standard search API with no real issues so far.

However, we noticed that a number of searches weren't going through. So it turns out, that Google is phasing out this API and pushing people to a different API:

https://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html#Pricing

The new API is more limited than what we've worked with, and also costs a lot of money given our usage.

We've recently also looked into Yahoo! Boss:

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

Does anyone have any suggestions on other APIs or providers to use here?

As I mentioned, we're not looking for a freebie but maybe something with more competitive pricing. If you can share experience using Boss or Bing, that would be great too.

Just to make sure: I'm not looking for a software solution (e.g. Lucene and related, Elastic Search, etc.).

Answer

amitamb picture amitamb · Apr 2, 2012

There is free Bing search API for this.

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