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The search landscape is shifting. In recent months, Microsoft announced the retirement of the Bing Search API, while Google limited its own API to a maximum of 10 results per query. These moves mark a notable change in the way the web’s dominant search providers view access to their data and who gets to build on it.
For more than a decade, search APIs like Bing and Google Custom Search have been part of the web’s plumbing. Developers have used them to retrieve web results, images and news without maintaining their own indexes. Enterprises…
