8 hours later, still getting hugged - Probably google blocked the requests.

Oh could you give it a try now? I just woke up and got around to fixing some of the scaling issues - it's not perfect but at least it's only failing 5% of queries when I load-tested with locust. Will get around to better fixes later!

Seems to produce the same. Tried a bunch of searches including something very generic, but ‘No results found :(‘ on each occasion.

q=bronco

{"has_prev": false, "has_next": false, "results": []}