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by anshumankmr 1130 days ago
We used this for a project: https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ before we moved to Elastic Search.

It has a REST API (and can be used to query the internet also, though our use case required us to restrict the results of one particular domain). I believe this is the closest thing to a Google Search API.
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qwertox 1130 days ago
So they seem to have a special agreement.

1.3 Your Obligations. You shall receive a Query from the End User and shall forward that Query to Google. You may not in any way frame, cache or modify the Results produced by Google, except as otherwise agreed to between You and Google.

https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/171430...

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anshumankmr 1130 days ago
I suppose a they may have written a service to query Google and there may be a CDN caching responses from that, which can be argued as not being a permanent datastore which I believe Google may be more likely have a problem with. It could also depend on the fact whether Google is willing to send a cease and desist over this.

However, I am no lawyer, so take it with a grain of salt.

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