Feedfetcher-Google-iGoogleGadgets

Something new from Google?

[GaryK]

Feedfetcher-Google-iGoogleGadgets; ( [google.com...]

Feedfetcher-Google;+(+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html;+21+subscribers;+feed-id=1736637496832374612)

These two UAs from Google kept hitting the same file several times a minute until it got blocked for abuse.

It's definitely from Google:

209.85.238.18
No PTR
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OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA

[GaryK]

I know what the iGoogleGadgets UA is for now. What I'm at a loss about is how to stop it from abusing my server. Surely Google wouldn't let this thing hit a server so often that it affects performance. Thanks.

[Marcia]

This is far from the scope of my "area of experience" but I have seen this used by some sites (saw it in the source code), and it was definitely abusing the system, but in a different way.

[GaryK]

definitely abusing the system, but in a different way.

Hi, Marcia. How so please?