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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