Thanks @Ikai! A few quick thoughts:
* It's not your responsibility to police copyright: mirrors shouldn't be against the TOS. * Definitely it would discourage poor behavior on GAE if an app could be resolved to an email address. * Same is true of a flagging system for apps, perhaps behind a captcha. What do you mean by filing a billing issue? I'm unfamiliar with that. Sincerely, Kyle On Jan 26, 1:52 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-engin... > > 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. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > Blogger:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > > > > > > > > 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? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine%2Bunsubscrib > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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-appengine?hl=en.
