This form right here: http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=AppEngineBillingSupport
We'll see what we can do for you by contacting the owners of the application in question, but we're not going to be able to provide you with their contact information directly. <http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=AppEngineBillingSupport>One of the members of this group emailed me off list to report a proxy FARM. This is clearly against our ToS, as it is a violation of our rule to prevent multiple applications acting as one. -- 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 1:11 PM, Kyle Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<ikai.l%[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%[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]<google-appengine%[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.
