I’m curious if anybody has data to share regarding what the costs are for use of the searchbox element when set to geographic places and setting the max entries to show.
Is there any difference if I show 5 versus 10 entries?
Also, does Google count each set of entries it shows as a use of the API. What I mean here is, if the user is typing, stops for a moment and begins typing again, which will cause the list of suggestions to change, does that count as another call?
My main concern as it relates to the number of entries to show and the Prefer Results Around. The prefer results around doesn’t work very well at all. If I put the name of a country and the radius set to 1, I get results outside of the country, although the other countries that are part of the suggested entries list are much closer to the country I am setting in prefer results around, but still, it doesn’t work since I should only get results within the country when my radius setting is 1.
I tried to set the radius to 0 but that effectively made it as if I didn’t enter anything into the Prefer Results around. My concern is if, google is charging per suggested entry displayed, the fact that Prefer Results around doesn’t work very well, could cost money.