I doubt that very much. It's very common for corporate sites to channel all their traffic through gateways. I would assume that google was smart enough to recognize that your usage pattern was not that of many users coming from a single IP address, but rather that of a harvesting robot. The two activities have very different log signatures. On Aug 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Tim Spalding wrote: > I suspect that proxying Google will trigger an automatic throttle. > Early on, a number of us hit GB hard, trying to figure out what they > had, and got stopped. > > Tim > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Eric Hellman<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Recent attention to privacy concerns about Google Book Search have >> led me to >> investigate whether any libraries are using tools such as proxy >> servers to >> enhance patron privacy when using Google Book Search. Similarly, >> advertising >> networks (web bugs, for example) could be proxied for the same >> reason. I >> would be very interested to hear from any libraries that have done >> either of >> these things and of their experiences doing so. Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA [log in to unmask] http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/