Yeah, that's what I was saying (or meaning), maybe I wasn't specific
enough, sorry.

On Feb 11, 9:17 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't believe they display a captcha when you get banned from the API. 
> Rather, they return a JSON object which includes an error message that 
> encourages you to contact Google to resolve the situation.
>
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> On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Phil-H wrote:
>
> > Well around the captcha basicallly yea. What you've said there is
> > another possible solution in this case, i'm just trying to check all
> > my options before choosing one! I don't suppose you know if there's
> > any way of responding with the word from the captcha if i did want to
> > display it to the user through my program and offer a text box?
>
> > On Feb 10, 8:14 pm, Vision Jinx <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Around the captcha or checking the status codes from the API? In my
> >> apps if I get a non-200 response I give an Oops with a link to error
> >> codes and provide a try again link.
>
> >> On Feb 10, 10:56 am, Phil-H <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> That is what i believed to be the case, although i'm looking for a
> >>> good way around the problem (assuming the querys sent by the program
> >>> are correct)
>
> >>> On Feb 10, 5:52 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>> You can get at least a couple of other response codes. I've seen 400, 
> >>>> which is a bad query. They also send a code for those who get banned. In 
> >>>> general, I believe they are a subset of the HTTP status codes.
>
> >>>> Jeremy R. Geerdes
> >>>> Effective website design & development
> >>>> Des Moines, IA
>
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> >>>> [email protected]
>
> >>>> If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan 
> >>>> Church!
>
> >>>> On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Phil-H wrote:
>
> >>>>> Its not automated and as far as i know does follow the TOS, here is
> >>>>> the process that occurs:
>
> >>>>> User selects a document
> >>>>> User presses a button to generate X number of random phrases with Y
> >>>>> words each
> >>>>> User can add additional phrases using a text box
> >>>>> User presses a button to search for the phrases
> >>>>> Search terms are sent to google
> >>>>> Search results are returned as JSON objects
>
> >>>>> My question is whether or not Google will return a response status
> >>>>> other than 200 at any time, since when using Google manually i've in
> >>>>> the past been asked to enter the word from an image to continue.
>
> >>>>> Thanks for the quick response,
> >>>>> Phil
>
> >>>>> On Feb 10, 5:39 pm, Vision Jinx <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
>
> >>>>>> The TOS does not allow automated queries so if that's what your doing
> >>>>>> you may very likely get blocked by the Goog.
>
> >>>>>> Is that what you have been doing or did I mis-understand your
> >>>>>> question?
>
> >>>>>> Since this has been an issue in the past they are also asking for
> >>>>>> people using server side queries to pass along the client IP (userip
> >>>>>> param) so if your not passing valid client (end user) IP addys your
> >>>>>> chances of getting blocked just increased also.
>
> >>>>>> Additional info in this post here 
> >>>>>> >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/t...
>
> >>>>>> Please make a follow up post if I missed what you were asking. :)
>
> >>>>>> Cheers!
> >>>>>> Vision Jinx
>
> >>>>>> On Feb 10, 10:09 am, Phil-H <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>>>>>> Hi,
>
> >>>>>>> I'll start off by explaining my situation; I'm using JSON objects and
> >>>>>>> the Google AJAX APIs in a Java program as my degree final year
> >>>>>>> dissertation project. The program works by taking a document,
> >>>>>>> selecting x random phrases from the document and searching Google for
> >>>>>>> them using the APIs.
>
> >>>>>>> It has worked as intended thus far but I expect that at some point
> >>>>>>> rather than returning the request status 200 along with the search
> >>>>>>> results Google will try to check that my client is not just a machine
> >>>>>>> spamming the system with searches and produce an anti-spam image. My
> >>>>>>> questions are:
>
> >>>>>>> 1. Does this in fact happen as it occasionally does when using a
> >>>>>>> Google search manually?
>
> >>>>>>> 2. What can i do to get around this?
>
> >>>>>>> My thoughts are that I'd have to display the image through the program
> >>>>>>> and return the user input but is there any support for this in the
> >>>>>>> AJAX APIs using JSON objects?
>
> >>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>>>>> Phil
>
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