Google has retired all of their useful Search APIs. They used to allow for free full text search through their APIs.

Back in the mid-2000s we used to use those for a previous iteration of our http://friskr.com visual search engine.

We are now forced to use Bing API.

I don't see the obvious alternative in the Custom Search API, even if it was deprecated for 3 years now, so I asked at the recommended forum, StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34864997/custom-search-a...