Kyle,

We've seen billing issues filed for this situation. If you file one, it'll
help us improve overall search quality. Unfortunately, there's nothing we
can do for you in the short term, as proxies are not against our ToS. In the
long term, however, there is a massive effort to overhaul our search quality
in general:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-search-and-search-engine-spam.html

Search quality is a problem that we're looking to improve across the board;
it bothers me that mirrors of App Engine groups content often outranks the
source Google group.

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Kyle Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Jay - Regardless if the request hits my application in a "live"
> manner, the content is indexed by search engines, which is my real
> complaint.  I can certainly block them using some WSGI middleware (I'm
> on python) by the appid.  However, I'd prefer to ask the guy just to
> stop scrapping.
>
> @Barry - there's no ads on there now but he's competing with me in
> some long tail searches.  My site is about patent news (snore) so I
> rank quite highly for various things like new patent litigations.  Now
> he shows up along side me with my content.  Clearly not perfect.
>
> Thanks guys!  Will be blocking...which is not ideal.  I can't believe
> there's no way to know who owns an app.  Seems like it would encourage
> abuse.
>
> -Kyle
>
>
> On Jan 26, 1:14 pm, Jay Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Something like this came up a few weeks ago.  I don't remember the
> details
> > exactly, but I think the issue was that anyone with a Google Apps domain
> can
> > add App Engine apps to their domain.  Accessing the site through that GA
> > domain still hits your site, it just looks like it's coming from a
> different
> > domain.  Have you confirmed that hitting this "mirror" does not cause any
> > requests on your own app?
>
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