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Google to block access to unofficial autocomplete API

Daggerchild Silver badge

Re: Google is increasing your privacy

It may be more fun than that - the results might be customised to the user. i.e. it leaks their personal preferences.

But to take the tinfoil hat off for a sec, it would also burn a lot of CPU at Google's end since it had no limiters and people were using bodged-together code on it, and Google most certainly track resource usage.

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