[will_brown]

Good for Google upping the limit here. Similarly when I developed a search engine using Google's API I too exceeded the query limit on the first day; however, At a rate of $5/1,000 queries with a daily cap at 10,000 I was forced to redevelop using the Bing API.

[cshesse]

Yeah, what's amazing is that they didn't charge us to increase the limit. It's also pretty awesome that their android push notification service has no quota and is free.

[lwf]

Using Google's search results takes a lot of computing power and could be abused by competitors.

Having robust messaging increases the value of Google's Android platform.

[richardwhiuk]

I suspect that the limit is to prevent abuse, and as it's early in it's roll out, rather than a mechanism to charge developers.