2026-07-23

Please do not abuse the TLGS search engine

I was doing some infra maintaince work today and turned on debug mode too look into why some of my own searches are timing out. Turns out there's someone who is hammering the server, which I can only assume is because someone's rogue crawler or some vide coded web crawler hitting public gemini proxies whom has no anti-abuse.

Search abuse log in TLGS
Image: Search abuse log in TLGS

Please do not abuse the service. I provided it for free and did not add a much anti abuse because I trust the Gemini community. But if abuse contiues, I will consider banning the IP that originates the requests and add a small delay for search queries to force a slow down.