On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Eric Hellman<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>

Uh, actually, Google has in the past throttled some services based on
the ip address.  I'm pretty sure it was mentioned before on this list
and I can verify it myself.  Look for some of Jonathan Rochkind's
questions about a year ago.  The original api used with GBS seemed
very prone to this.  I know others hit issues and when our consortium
tried to use a proxy of the original api due to some technical issues
they ran into this.  (First couple of hundred hits would be golden,
the rest just would return http errors).  There's a newer one out
there now that apparently doesn't use this throttling, but I'm not
positive of the details.  An organization may still have to warn
google about it.

There's a reason why the original api strongly encouraged folks to do
things via a ajaxy call on the client.  I'm guessing part of the
reason for the "new api" was to address these issues.

Jon Gorman