Over 1M requests a day:
>> $200.00 per 1,000 transactions
After passing 1M requests/day, $5 per search is pretty steep. I guess this is a way of ensuring that their own 1st party traffic is prioritized.
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#12Google is 5$ per 1000 queries. I'll likely be switching. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview
You're only allowed up to 10k queries per day, so you can't really use it to build a competing search engine.
I used their Programmable Search Engine (which doesn't have this 10k/day limit, but instead is client-side with other limitations), but the moment my Google-approved-non-profit was about to receive its first AdSense payout that would be donated to other charities, then they not only banned my AdSense account, but they also went a step further to ban my Programmable Search Engine account.. I have no idea why since it's impossible to get in touch with a human.
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#13$7 per 1000 searches was already incredibly expensive.. increasing it to $25 is a joke. It feels like now that they're going all-in with Bing then they don't want to deal with other competition.
Also worth noting that Bing doesn't allow small websites access the Microsoft Advertising network to help offset the cost. I've been told by a kind stranger that you need at least 10k searches per day to get access, that's $7500/month you now need to pay before you can even begin to monetize your service (and you'll probably spend tens of thousands before you reach the threshold). No idea how much you can expect to earn per 1000 searches with Microsoft Advertising if you're lucky/influential enough to get access, but I doubt it's much more than $25.
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#15I use bing in my app for image search, anyone have some alternatives they’d recommend? (I tried unsplash but their dev approval process just never worked for me and I couldn’t get to a human)
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#16Glorified frontends like DuckDuckGo, Neeva, You.com and Perplexity never had much of a business case.
The same can be said for GPT wrappers like Jasper - the business equivalents of a mirage.
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#18Google is 5$ per 1000 queries. I'll likely be switching. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview
You're only allowed up to 10k queries per day, so you can't really use it to build a competing search engine. I used their Programmable Search Engine (which doesn't have this 10k/day limit, but instead is client-side with other limitations), but the moment my Google-approved-non-profit was about to receive its first AdSense payout that would be donated to other charities, then they not only banned my AdSense account,…
> You're only allowed up to 10k queries per day, so you can't really use it to build a competing search engine.
But Kagi.com uses Google (+ Bing), they almost certainly have over 10k queries/day
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're only allowed up to 10k queries per day, so you can't really use it to build a competing search engine. I used their Programmable Search Engine (which doesn't have this 10k/day limit, but instead is client-side with other limitations), but the moment my Google-approved-non-profit was about to receive its first AdSense payout that would be donated to other charities, then they not only banned my AdSense account,…
> You're only allowed up to 10k queries per day, so you can't really use it to build a competing search engine. But Kagi.com uses Google (+ Bing), they almost certainly have over 10k queries/day
I don't think Kagi is close to that amount of traffic to be honest (although I'd love to be wrong, in which case they might bypass the limit by rotating between different Programmable Search Engine accounts).. I mean they require signup and even then limit to 50 searches/month unless you start paying $10/month, which is totally fair but a very high barrier of entry.
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#20I use bing in my app for image search, anyone have some alternatives they’d recommend? (I tried unsplash but their dev approval process just never worked for me and I couldn’t get to a human)
Update: after using bing, moved to pexels, which seems quite nice