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Yeah, what's amazing is that they didn't charge us to increase the limit. It's also pretty awesome that their android push notification service has no quota and is free.

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Using Google's search results takes a lot of computing power and could be abused by competitors.

Having robust messaging increases the value of Google's Android platform.

I suspect that the limit is to prevent abuse, and as it's early in it's roll out, rather than a mechanism to charge developers.

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