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> Our searching includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing.

Are they sleeping with the directors of Bing and Google Search to be allowed to do that, or do they use one of these shady companies that proxy google search through hacked computers ?



There is an API for both.


The Google one is restricted to a small subset of websites so it's useless for a generic search engine. https://developers.google.com/custom-search

The Bing one wants you to write Bing©®™ everywhere, requires you to track your user with their trackers, and forbids most features that would make an alternative search engine useful, such as sorting or filtering the results. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap...




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