What examples are there of people using this?

There is literally thousands of independent search engines that use Programmable search to search the entire web. Many ISP providers use it on their homepage, kids-based search engines like wackysafe.com use it, also search engines that focus on privacy like gprivate.com etc

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TeMPOraL 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Also LLM tools. Programmable Search Engine API was a way to give third-party LLM frontends the ability to give LLMs a web search tool. Notably, this was a common practice long before any of the major LLM providers added search capabilities to their frontents.

	▲	01jonny01 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, Google want every one depended on Gemini.