Hey there. Something strange (well, I thought it was strange) happened to my Google search last week. I was presented with a captcha before I could continue my search. There's a screen grab on my blog:
http://nevstokes.com/blog/2007/11/05/enter-captcha-to-continue/
Anybody else experience this on any of their search terms? |
Yeah, this is quite common if Google thinks you're carrying out too many searches or requests in a specific time period. If it wasn't you, it could perhaps have been someone else on your network. |
Thanks Tony, but it does seem strange that I keep on getting this (even when the office is quiet) when trying the same search terms ("php submit post") but I don't get the captcha on others.
The message given by Google is:
We're sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
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Try accessing google via a different domain or by IP. Clearing cookies might also work.
http://72.14.207.107
A proxy will also work.
http://scroogle.org/scraper.html |
>A proxy will also work.
Or it may be the problem. If you are behind a proxy like Tor, usually you get these messages because the public proxies hit google lots of time.
I tried with the same search query you mention at your blog, and I had no problems. |
Google is by far and away my favourite search engine – but never will rate an exclusive. I always have backups on hand : in fact, some are loaded as delivered in Firefox and Opera browsers. One reason is sometimes glitches/attacks occur which make a site unserviceable. Rare ? Yep. Unprecedented ? Not so much. |
Here is a full link to Google's official reasons for the new CAPTCHA:
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2007/07/reason-behind-were-sorry-message.html |