How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)

Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by bearzoo on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:59PM (#10269077)

I REALLY REALLY want someone to do this with a huge amount of google image thumbnails so that the google crawlers just start hitting google servers. Would it be considered malicious to do such a thing?

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by danso on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @08:32PM (#10269187)

> Would it be considered malicious to do such a thing?

Maliciousness is usually described in the context of intent. So your first sentence should provide the answer to your own question. Is there a way to do what you describe such that the result is gratifying and yet doesn't cause significant duress on Google's servers and employees?

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by jon-wood on Thursday September 24, 2015 @06:43AM (#10270872)

Just doing it the way started wouldn't cause significant duress on Google's servers. You'd be requesting that Google transfer data from a service designed to handle massive volume of traffic, across their own network, to another service designed to handle massive volume. Honestly, I'd be surprised if it even tripped any monitoring alarms.

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