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Replacement for Google AJAX Search API?
3 points by metrics9 5708 days ago
On Nov. 1 Google pulled the plug on their AJAX Search API which allowed for nearly unlimited queries to the engine. It has been replaced by the Custom Search API which is equally good, but has a severe limitation of 100 queries per day! They have a link where you can 'request more...', but I haven't been able to get any response from Google from that link or any other channel.

I imagine this affects a lot of people and am curious if anyone has had any luck increasing their limit or if there're other solutions to the problem. We need to rank client websites for thousands of keywords and need to solve this problem soon.