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Comment by fragmede | Hacker News Reader

I would think that the ajax API could also be twisted to their needs. It requires an API key that Google puts some limits on, limits that they might want to apply to Scroogle in any case. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/

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Actually, their docs claim that the limits aren't really related to the API key. The API key is just so they can contact you if they start blocking you:

  http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/key.html

That may just be disinformation though. For example, if you can spread your usage over multiple IPs, you might be allowed more searches than if you told them your API key for all your requests on multiple IP addresses.

The ajax api returns completely different results than the normal search and in a different order, so it's not worth using if you want to "actual" google search results.

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