Isn't Serp using public Google search for free and effectively selling you "we will bypass the captchas that will inevitably come up"?
Kind of doesn't make sense to compare to them.
Kind of doesn't make sense to compare to them.
There is demand for search APIs, and companies like Kagi can build a business around that, grow and then compete more generally with Google over time. Serp makes that difficult.
For competitive reasons Google might not want to sell a search API directly (they might indirectly fuel a lot of competition against their main ad supported product). So letting Serp offer this service in a bit of a gray area makes it hard for competitors to form a beach head in search, while giving Google legal flexibility to shut down any service that tries to compete with them in any way through Serp's data.