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by instance 2187 days ago
How would they, without impairing normal users? You need an API for the public that allows you to get suggestions rather quickly without an API key, for all the users that are not logged into their Google account.
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awb 2187 days ago
Probably the same way they lock down Google search from too many HTTP requests.
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Cthulhu_ 2187 days ago
Yeah I'm sure there's a reasonable flood control on that endpoint, which for project like this probably won't kick in.
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mdoms 2187 days ago
Captcha? This won't work for their regular use cases.
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awb 2186 days ago
Probably server-side rate limiting based on IP.
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