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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens by lgats on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:23PM (#23458553)
For those curious, "[Google] Custom Search JSON API provides 100 search queries per day for free. ...Additional requests cost $5 per 1000 queries, up to 10k queries per day."

It seems runnaroo would therefore be limited to 10k searches/day?

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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens by luckylion on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:39PM (#23458723)
That sentence could also mean "$5/1000 applies up to 10k queries per day (and you get to talk to a sales rep if you do more than 10k queries per day)".
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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens by x32n23nr on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:30PM (#23458621)
Not necessarily. Startpage uses Google for all of its results.

> You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. - https://startpage.com

Does anyone know how one can get whatever deal Startpage has?

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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens by mintplant on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:43PM (#23461606)
Startpage is descended from Ixquick (launched 1998). I believe they have an old, uniquely favorable contract with Google as a result.
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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens by abdullahkhalids on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:34PM (#23458664)
If I am willing to write a wrapper for this API, I can avoid all the ads (but not tracking)?

Does this API still return paid results near the top?

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