AKAnurag Kumarinapi-serpent.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 2 min readThe alternative: scraper-backed social APIsThe practical approach most teams use in production: a REST API that handles the scraping, proxy rotation, and anti-bot evasion behind the scenes, returning clean JSON without any OAuth or quota compl00
AKAnurag Kumarinapi-serpent.hashnode.dev·Jul 17 · 2 min readI tested 7 free Google Search API tiers. Here's what each one actually gives you.The honest version nobody writes because every listicle is written by a vendor: I signed up for 7 free tiers in one afternoon and ran the same queries through each one. Here's what I found. Google Cus00
AKAnurag Kumarinapi-serpent.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 4 min readHow ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity Search the Web Differently (And Why It Matters for Your App)When you build an AI agent or RAG pipeline that searches the web, you probably think of it as "searching the internet." It isn't. Each major LLM searches a specific, proprietary index — and the differ00
