title: Alternatives to the Google Search API
body: <p>If someone searches for a keyword on our website, we currently pull in Google's search results. We have done this using Google's standard search API with no real issues so far.</p>
  
  <p>However, we noticed that a number of searches weren't going through. So it turns out, that Google is phasing out this API and pushing people to a different API:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html#Pricing">https://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html#Pricing</a></p>
  
  <p>The new API is more limited than what we've worked with, and also costs a lot of money given our usage.</p>
  
  <p>We've recently also looked into Yahoo! Boss:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/">http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/</a></p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any suggestions on other APIs or providers to use here?</p>
  
  <p>As I mentioned, we're not looking for a freebie but maybe something with more competitive pricing. If you can share experience using Boss or Bing, that would be great too.</p>
  
  <p>Just to make sure: <strong>I'm not looking for a software solution (e.g. Lucene and related, Elastic Search, etc.).</strong></p>