Didn't both Google and Bing discontinue their search APIs, or was that something different?

Basically, yes. Everyone is just scraping them with residential proxies.

	▲	mrweasel an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The internet is devolving before our eyes. Use a nicely, stable API with an SLO for a small fee or scrape via a Candy Crush clone running on some grandmas iPad in Nebraska... hard choice.