Solution to Google custom search API daily search quota blown?

It's hard to beat google. However, That is $5 as in $5 per day.   If you have 250 people that each search 4 times on your site totaling 1000 search's per day that is nearly $2,000 per year.  

As much as I like google, I do think this is high.  Before they took away the google mini, you could have something like 100,000 items indexed for $3,000 per year and that would get you unlimited searches.  Most of us would have a fraction of the total items to index but require a lot more searches so this makes sense.  You have to start at $15,000 for a google search appliance.  If you are a fortune 1000 company, this is probably fine.  For the rest of us, a little out of reach.

Bing has 5,000 monthly searches free but their plan is only $2 per thousand http://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search

Amazon's cloud search http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/pricing/ shows if you had 100,000 search's PER DAY and a gig of data, you would be at about $70 per month.  I have not tried this and it sounds like a little more work but could yield big savings.

http://www.freefind.com/plans.html is worth looking at including their database search  http://www.freefind.com/datasearch.html

http://www.eurekster.com/publishers.php

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-sphinxsearch/

and a list of free alternatives http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/search2.shtml

Good links up there, thanks.
Maybe I should add a refinement.

I didn't realize this would be interpreted only as a search used by a web-page. I assumed only Java research would use it mainly.

I am using custom search in a Java research type personal app.
I am blowing my free 100 daily searches, always, because I run my program many many times a day.

I prefer Google to Bing.

Is my real option to be billed $5 for overstepping 100 searches?

Thanks

Sounds good.

That $5 a day is $150 per month, $1,800 per year.

I like google too.  But with the little bit extra that Bing gives you can save $2 grand and go on a nice vacation.

Hi
Having looked at Bing custom search, I am realizing new things. - or am understanding your advice properly!
It is not the amount of searches I should be as concerned with as the number of results.
I thought a little, and with just even the 100 searches, if I got a heck of a lot of replied URL's, I'd be happy. If we could trick Google into a river of replies, not just 10, I'd be happy.
Bing seems to be able to take a value in the code itself of the limit of link responses to be returned by the search, but I can't find that page again. It was a simple Java code example page where it said numberOfLinks = 3L; or something close. Has anybody done Java Bing Custom searches like this?
Also, I can't seem to find Bing Custom search Java help pages. It all seems to be C++ C# and PHP, not straight Java. I have all the jar files ready to hook in to a Java Bing Custom Search, if that's a direction I'd like to take. or a mix of Bing and Google. I'd like to check Bing out a bit. Any thoughts?
Thanks

We can't help you with tricking google. But with the Bing code, instead of looking at code examples, you just need the endpoints. The documentation is https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=9C9479871FBFA822!109&app=Word&authkey=!ACvyZ_MNtngQyCU

I am not a java expert.  If you need help using an api/endpoint, just ask another question.  I would just choose "java" as the main category though and ad  couple other similar.

I found this page on my iPhone, so can't see it all.

Is this a promising looking Java Bing search page?

http://learn-it-stuff.blogspot.com/2012/09/using-bing-custom-search-inside-your.html?m=1

Okay, I did start a new question
Thanks