In most cases, it is appropriate to use nofollow or other meta-tags to prevent search engine crawlers from initiating API calls. As Jeremy suggested, this is important because these requests are automated and can therefore appear to be a large number of spam requests coming from your site. Blocking these requests with tags (or in your server, when you detect a search engine bot's header, for instance), can help ensure that you are following the policy around automated queries and permanently storing results. For the full Terms of Use, please see here: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/terms.html (depending on which API you're using)
I hope this helps, Adam On Jul 9, 6:43 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > My guess is that GoogleBot hits so many pages in such rapid succession that > it triggers the API's throttling mechanisms. If this is the case, there's not > going to be much that you can do. You might try adding an API key. > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > Effective website design & development > Des Moines, IA > > For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com > [email protected] > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan > Church! > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:54 AM, MarkOG wrote: > > > > > This is quite an important question because it must affect many > > publishers. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
