Businesses Pay For Google Custom Search

Google has started offering a Business Edition of its Custom Search Engines, letting businesses pay for a version of it they can customize and control to their liking. Businesses pay based on the number of pages they want indexed, starting at $100/year for 5,000 pages, $500 for 50,000, $850 for 100,000 and $2250 for 300,000, and they get to remove the ads, customize the way results are displayed, and receive search results via an XML API for total control.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg