3 messages in com.googlegroups.google-base-data-apiRe: Poor performance on Google Base S...
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bchicos14 Mar 2008 13:32 
Jeff S17 Mar 2008 15:42 
Tom Wilson23 Mar 2008 14:03 
Subject:Re: Poor performance on Google Base Snippets queries
From:Jeff S (j.@google.com)
Date:03/17/2008 03:42:08 PM
List:com.googlegroups.google-base-data-api

Hi bchicos,

I'll raise this issue with the team here. If you have any additional information about times when queries are particularly slow I would like to know.

Thank you,

Jeff

On Mar 14, 1:32 pm, bchicos <bchi@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been noticing lately (Today between noon and 4:30pm) that the Snippets URL's are performing very very slowly. I'm getting 10+ second response times on accessing a normal search in the API. This seems to happen on any Snippets URL search.

This has also been happening early in the morning 6am-8am EST on some days this week. I am wondering if Google is aware of a performance issue here and if anything is being done for the problem. It seems to happen for several hours at a time.

I am planning on using this API as the 'Search' source on a Facebook app which times out any request that takes longer than 8 seconds. So this is a problem for me when the URL's take so long to come back. I know usually this API normally performs very quickly, but every once