I’d like to make a website like startpage.com. In their FAQ they say they have some agreement with Google.<p>Does anyone know how I can get a similar agreement?<p>Gooogle Custom Search has some limits, like 10K calls per day if the whole internet is searched. So that’s not the answer.<p>My goal? Build something like Ecosia.org but using Google.
Ecosia is powered by MS. See footer.<p>See the available MS API:
<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/bing-custom-search/" rel="nofollow">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...</a>
<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/bing-custom-search/" rel="nofollow">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-...</a><p><a href="https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206153381-Where-do-Ecosia-s-search-results-come-from-" rel="nofollow">https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206153381-Where...</a><p>Also see DuckDuckGo API:<p><a href="http://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=x&format=json" rel="nofollow">http://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=x&format=json</a><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37012469/duckduckgo-api-getting-search-results" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37012469/duckduckgo-api-...</a><p>Have good fun!
I looked into that, and I'm afraid you can't. My guess is that startpage has a special deal for some reasons, perhaps a long term contract. Perhaps if you have a lot of money and good connections with Google you can talk to them, but it's weird that no one else is using Google Search's results.<p>You can find some shady google search proxies that will query google for you so you don't get blocked, but I wouldn't recommend that. I didn't test them, maybe they are just a scam.