Google Retires Its Web Search API
Google announced it has retired its Web Search API this morning, recommending developers use the Custom Search API in its place. [blockquote cite=”Google Developers Blog”]On November 1, 2010, we announced the deprecation of the Web Search API. As our policy at the time, we supported the API for a three year period (and beyond), but […]
Amy Gesenhues on August 29, 2014 at 9:01 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google announced it has retired its Web Search API this morning, recommending developers use the Custom Search API in its place.
[blockquote cite=”Google Developers Blog”]On November 1, 2010, we announced the deprecation of the Web Search API. As our policy at the time, we supported the API for a three year period (and beyond), but as all things come to an end, so has its deprecation window.[/blockquote]
Google noted the Customer Search API has a free quota of 100 queries per day.
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