On 10 September 2011 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle@gmail.com> wrote:

> last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy said
> he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or
> something and something good is to be expected in the near future (i am not
> sure, i might be mangling his meaning).

Interesting.

Sadly, the Google Search API is no longer free:

http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html