Google Search for AI Agents: A Relay MCP (cheaper than alternatives)

Jay — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:26:43 +0000

Google Search for AI Agents: A Relay MCP at $3 per 1K

Every AI agent needs web search. And every search API is expensive.

The problem: search APIs are pricey

Provider	Price per 1K
Google official Custom Search	$5 (and site-restricted)
Exa (semantic search)	$7
Tavily	$8-16
Brave	$5
GoAI Moat (Serper relay)	$3

We're not building a search engine. We relay a compliant full-web search API and pass the volume discount on to agents.

What we shipped

com.goaimoat/google-search  →  https://search.mcp.goaimoat.com/mcp

Two tools:

google_search — organic web results (title, link, snippet)
news_search — Google News (title, link, date, source)

Free 3 searches per email, then $3/1K via license.

Who it's for

Any agent that needs web search — SEO/GEO work, market research, competitor monitoring, content research — without paying $5-16 per 1K.

Try it

{ "mcpServers": { "google-search": { "url": "https://search.mcp.goaimoat.com/mcp" } } }

Source: https://github.com/jayniebingyu-cyber/goaimoat-mcp
Catalog: https://goaimoat.com/mcp-catalog.html

A cheaper search layer for your agent. Feedback welcome.

I Built 15 MCP Tools So AI Agents Can Audit AI Visibility

Jay — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:06:37 +0000

Buyers stopped searching. They ask AI. And in 2026, AI agents started placing the orders.

Being good is no longer enough — you have to be sayable by AI. And I built 15 MCP servers to make that measurable.

The problem: "ranking #1" is dead, "being cited" is everything

Three numbers changed how I think about visibility:

65–68% of Google searches now end without a click;
Brands cited by AI earn ~35% more organic clicks and ~91% more paid clicks than brands AI never mentions;
AI-referred visitors convert at 14.2% vs 2.8% for organic — roughly 5×.

So "SEO" is becoming "GEO" (Generative Engine Optimization) — and the gatekeeper is no longer a crawler, it's a model that has to choose to cite you.

What I built: 15 MCP servers, one namespace

I packaged our entire methodology into 15 Model Context Protocol servers, all under com.goaimoat/* on the official MCP Registry. Any AI agent (Claude, Cursor, etc.) can call them over streamable HTTP:

Category	MCP servers
Brand diagnosis	ai-visibility (0-30 score + 30-point checklist), competitor-signals (7 signals + TSI)
Intelligence & outreach	market-intel-brief, decision-maker-lookup
Content & memory	content-studio (bilingual EN/ZH), brand-intel-memory
Cross-border ops	cross-border-profit, export-compliance, pricing-strategy, product-selection, export-tax, inventory-management
Marketing & brand	review-intelligence, ip-brand-protection, social-media-strategy

Here's the pattern. A 3-tool MCP server is ~80 lines of FastMCP:

from fastmcp import FastMCP
mcp = FastMCP(name="GoAI Moat — ...")

@mcp.tool()
def score_brand(brand: str, category: str) -> dict:
    """Score a brand's AI visibility 0-30 across 5 categories."""
    ...

mcp.run(transport="streamable-http", host="127.0.0.1", port=8000)

Deploy = one systemd unit + one Nginx block + one mcp-publisher publish. The marginal cost of a new MCP is near zero, which is why I ship one every hour.

The bet: quantity × exposure × conversion

I'm running a simple formula:

product count × exposure × lifetime conversion rate = orders

When exposure is still tiny and conversion is unmeasurable, the only lever I control is product count — so I cover as many niches as possible and let the market tell me which one converts.

What I learned (dogfooding my own product)

The registry is the distribution channel. One mcp-publisher publish and you're discoverable by every directory that mirrors the registry (mcp.so, Glama, PulseMCP, Smithery).
llms.txt + JSON-LD is the on-ramp. AI crawlers read them before they ever call your MCP.
Ship the niche, not the platform. Generic "web search" is saturated. "Cross-border × AI × brand visibility" is an empty lane.
Eat your own dog food. We sell "AI visibility" — so the best case study is that our own tools are what an agent finds when you ask it for AI-visibility tooling.

Try it

All 15 servers are free-tier, listed under com.goaimoat/*. Point any MCP client at:

https://mcp.goaimoat.com/mcp        (ai-visibility)
https://intel.mcp.goaimoat.com/mcp  (market intel)
https://comp.mcp.goaimoat.com/mcp   (competitor signals)
... (15 total — see https://goaimoat.com/mcp-catalog.html)

Source on GitHub: https://github.com/jayniebingyu-cyber/goaimoat-mcp

Feedback welcome — especially on the scoring model. What signals do YOU think determine whether an AI cites a brand?

Test post from GoAI Moat

Jay — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:06:05 +0000

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DEV Community: Jay

Google Search for AI Agents: A Relay MCP (cheaper than alternatives)

Google Search for AI Agents: A Relay MCP at $3 per 1K

The problem: search APIs are pricey

What we shipped

Who it's for

Try it

I Built 15 MCP Tools So AI Agents Can Audit AI Visibility

The problem: "ranking #1" is dead, "being cited" is everything

What I built: 15 MCP servers, one namespace

The bet: quantity × exposure × conversion

What I learned (dogfooding my own product)

Try it

Test post from GoAI Moat

Hello