Google Search API site limit

Question

According to the Google custom search API\'s docs: http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/start.html#sites there is a limit of up to 5000 sites that you can search. This

Answer 1

Google Custom Search is actually capable of searching the entire web, although the setting is not obvious. See "Search the entire web".

The other problems you are likely to run into are:

1. You only get 100 results per search, and
2. You are limited to 100 queries per day.

Sadly, "upgrading" to Google Site Search eliminates problem #2 at the expense of being able to search the entire web.