On December 7 I updated a site to version 7.x-1.4. Here's a chart of that site's Google Geocoding API usage for the last 30 days:

Chart of Google API usage that shows minimal usage up to December 7, and much more significant usage afterwards

We've burned through over half our free Google API quota for December since then, and will owe money at the end of the month if we don't get this fixed.

Also, when I filter admin/reports/dblog by Geocoder, the site completely stopped producing "Google API returned zero results" exceptions when people type stupid stuff into the location search field, starting the moment I upgraded.

Continuing my investigation, but I thought I'd post what I had in case anyone can quickly explain this.

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75th Trombone created an issue.

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lanny heidbreder commented

Well, I reverted to the old version of the module and it doesn't seem to have helped. I did update Drupal core and other modules that day, but I don't know what could have caused this increase. There was never a CAPTCHA or anything on the search form that uses Geocoder. Hrm.

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denix commented

Hi @lanny-heidbreder , did you find a solution or the cause of the problem? otherwise I think you should close the issue.