I would encourage more development be done to have the type cover more of the front end code. Your development environment must not be of much help due to the heavy use of the "any" type throughout the codebase, which essentially escapes out of the type system.
However it requires a Google API key, which limits free usage.
Client-side scraping scales effectively, as it distributes the reads onto all the clients. But it's also more brittle, as Google could change a small implementation of their search and break all the scraping functions.
It's not too bad, but not free as far as I'm aware and the result snippets they give you are quite limited in length. Also I found it a little tricky to get good results on some queries when I tried it out.
