Surely it has to be the paid APIs. You can’t build a service hoping Google won’t notice your bots running searches.
padge@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I wonder if they’re using the (paid) Google and Brave APIs, and are running Leta as a loss leader, or if they have some way to get around it
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
padge@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I guess you would need a lot of proxies. And they probably need to be on Googles good side to keep their VPN extension in Chrome
potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 1 day ago
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
Can you please link to the paid Google API you’re talking about? I wasn’t aware they had an API for web search.
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day ago
Never gave this much thought. I've been considering subscribing for Kagi again, but basically they are paying for a Google API subscription, meaning that Google directly monetizes my Kagi searches?
To be completely honest, I'm less worried about privacy and more worried about what kind of world I'm contributing to with my internet usage. I Mullvad sends money to Google for every search, it's probably not for me.
Switched to Qwant now - rather Microsoft than Google, and at least they are working on their own engine.