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 More options Dec 6 2007, 11:58 pm
From: uwe.mau...@google.com
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:58:55 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Dec 6 2007 11:58 pm
Subject: Re: Question on 50,000 limit
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The "user" is the webpage that links to the chart. We would like to
make sure that all users get their charts fast and reliably. Therefore
we may temporarily block users (websites)  that exceed the limit.
A chart request is not counted if the chart image is cached by the
browser or by a proxy.

Uwe

On Dec 7, 5:25 am, "Hernán Rodriguez Colmeiro" <colme...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Buth that term doesn't define "user". A "user" may be a visitor to
> your webpage, but your webpage URL might also be the "user". The
> policy is confusing, when it should be plain and clear :(

> Hernán

> On Dec 6, 11:01 pm, Herm <peter.herrm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The usage policy says "50,000 queries per user per day"http://code.google.com/apis/chart/#usage
> > This means one dig visitor can refresh your page 50,000 times.

> > Regarding caching, this is done at the client side and I would assume
> > it would make sense that if the query string remains the same in your
> > <img> tag, then the client could use cache (or a transparent proxy
> > could use cache) instead of requesting it again from the google host.

> > On Dec 7, 6:33 am, Philipp <philipp.lens...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > This limit is true even when the chart doesn't change, right?

> > > So when I use this service to include a pie chart in my blog post, and
> > > the blog post gets dugg sending 60,000 visitors, then the latest
> > > 10,000 of them will see some blank image or what? (What will they see,
> > > anyway... a file not found or...?)

> > > Or is this limit excluding images that can be cached as their values
> > > don't change...?


 
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