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Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search by SkepticMystic on Friday April 05, 2024 @02:07AM (#39939135)
Assuming they use some form of this Google API[^1], they're surely paying for the results. What bothers me is that, by paying for Kagi then, part of that monthly fee is going straight back to Google, right?

[^1]: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

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Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search by xnx on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:49AM (#39943887)
> Custom Search JSON API provides 100 search queries per day for free. If you need more, you may sign up for billing in the API Console. Additional requests cost $5 per 1000 queries, up to 10k queries per day.

It seems like that API has a limit of 10k queries per day, so I don't know if it would be feasible for Kagi to use and I thought most Google APIs were prohibited for use in a competing product.

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Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search by SkepticMystic on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:17AM (#39950168)
Sure, that specific endpoint doesn't meet their criteria. But point being, they're getting results from Google, and almost certainly pay for them using my monthly fee
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