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look at what is happening with tools like Market samurai etc.. that used Google to get competition data from.. and now they are not...as they reported changes that google have made has made it hard for them to do what they need to do.

There is nothing happening with Market Samurai except — their built-in proxies stopped handling the amount of users/queries. We can not really account for what they say, but the fact is that there have been no changes by Google or anything like that. Google blocked automated queries before and it still does now, only their built-in safety settings do not handle it now.
Our search safety settings still work just as they used to. If your proxies get captcha then they're blocked already and you need to move to other proxies.
Again, if you send us the project with logs and settings we'll be able to produce a proper judgement and give specific advice.