Re:The day I was DoSed by Google
by belorn on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:02AM
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If the mining are done at Google Cloud Storage, initiated by a google search bot, can't Google then identify and handle such abuse? I assume Google already scans for multiple types of abuse, such as sites that spread malware.
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Re:The day I was DoSed by Google
by nemothekid on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:30PM
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Google shouldn't really have to do this. Replace GoogleBot with BingBot or GCE with AWS and you still have the same problem. A website operator should be working to make sure search crawlers don't consume too many resources given that the bots follow rules.
Otherwise you'd have a team at every cloud provider trying to figure out how to manage bots.
Now you're suggesting that Google basically devotes a team to detecting "crawler-free-quota abuse", when the real solution needs to handles crawlers from many different sources that aren't all Google.