I'd be concerned as to adverse effects on my indexing. But it wouldn't fix my problem as it would still be a request that would require a GAE instance to handle

I'd be concerned as to adverse effects on my indexing. But it wouldn't fix my problem as it would still be a request that would require a GAE instance to handle it. (edit) Yes, the bot is still hitting the GAE site atm even though it's returning a quota error.