I'm interested in automating queries "site:, allintext:, etc." against Google using Perl. Doing some initial research it appears that Google is no longer supporting or releasing their API which, by consequence, has reduced the functionality of many tools that utilized the Google API key. I have a few questions pertaining to this:

*If you've written a tool that used to require the Google API, what work around did you come up with ( if any ).
*If you previously used a tool which required the Google API, how did this impact you?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions and guidance.
proust!