I was using it for an ai agent i built for my use as home assistant. It seems like many competing companies might be doing same.

Microsoft already did this with the Bing Search API back in August 2025, killed both the free and paid tiers with nothing that drops in to replace it.

All I'm sayin' is that Searx exists and can provide JSON.

Why would they do this as AI companies and agents have driven demand for other companies to want to integrate search into their products?

Why would you use AI to write this post? If you can’t bother to write it, why should I bother to read it?

Previously in January:

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730436

In the search game the board has changed

That's surprising to me that they would kill something like this off, because LLMs are going to need search APIs. Why wouldn't Google want to be the search engine all of the AIs use? While we (people) may not need search engines as much as we once did, LLMs probably do need search capabilities. I could be wrong, maybe reply if I am, but don't LLMs typically need to search for information? For example, when I ask ChatGPT some obscure question about my Behringer RD-8 drum machine, an LLM isn't going to know the answer based on its original training will it? (even if the manual was out in the public internet when the model was trained)? Under the hood its searching for information and then processing it extremelly quickly right? These LLMs don't just "know" the answer do they?

Please link to https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview instead of whatever this is.