Alternative to the deprecated google REST web search API

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I have been using the Google Websearch API for over 1 year now. The service was deprecated in Nov 2010 but continues to provide results to date. More recently, google has st

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UPDATE: @ggez44 points to some official Google documentation of the solution described below here: http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210656

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You can use the Google Custom Search Engine to search the entire web.

In brief:

1. Create a CSE that searches a single site (e.g. google.com)
2. In the CSE control panel's Basics section, set to "Search the entire web but emphasize certain sites"
3. In the Sites section, delete the single site that you added when you created the CSE

Full details here:

• http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch/thread?tid=56c0bd92dda351b7&hl=en&fid=56c0bd92dda351b7000495e3f500d83f

Once that's implemented, you can enable billing in the Google API Console at a CPM of $5, to a total of 10,000 queries.

• Google API Console: https://code.google.com/apis/console/
• Pricing: https://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html#Pricing