Terms

The Search Project takes one search query, reads the pages that rank for it, and produces a Search Intelligence Report explaining why they rank — with the evidence behind every claim, the pages that evidence came from, and a confidence level you can inspect.

It is an analysis tool. It reads the public web and reasons about it. It does not touch your website, your hosting, or your search console, and it never asks for access to them.

Nothing is charged for The Search Project. There is no plan, no subscription, no credit, and no upgrade. Running an analysis spends your own search, page-reading, and AI provider usage, billed to you by those providers directly; the amount each run spent is shown in Settings → Usage.

You are responsible for your account credentials and for the provider keys you add. Those keys spend your money at your providers, so treat them as you would any other credential. Remove a key from Settings and it stops being used immediately.

• Use your own accounts, and stay inside the terms of the search, crawling, and AI providers you connect.
• Do not use the service to attack, overload, or gain access to anything you do not own.
• Do not attempt to reach private or internal addresses through a competitor URL — the crawler refuses them, and trying is a misuse of the service.
• Do not present a report as something it is not. Every claim in it is attributed; keep it that way when you share it.

Requests are rate-limited per account so one person cannot exhaust shared capacity. Hitting a limit is not a penalty; it clears on its own.

Every recommendation ships with its evidence and a confidence level, or it is not shipped at all. That is a rule the software enforces on itself, and it is the reason to trust a report — not a promise about outcomes.

Search results change, and reading a page is not the same as reading Google’s mind. A report describes what was observably true of a search result at the moment it was analyzed. It is not a guarantee of a ranking, of traffic, or of any commercial result, and no part of it should be treated as one.

Your queries, your reports, and anything you export from them are yours. We claim no ownership of them and do not use them to train anything.

The service depends on third-party search, crawling, and AI providers. When one of them is slow, rate-limited, or down, an analysis can fail — the report will tell you which stage failed and why, rather than presenting a partial result as a complete one.

You can stop using The Search Project at any time and delete your reports and your account from Settings. Nothing is retained to hold you.

If these terms change materially, the date at the top changes with them. See also the Privacy page, which describes what is stored and who it is sent to.