AHA! That's fascinating...
I had never heard of google putting captchas on searches before. Kurt On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Sherry Abercrombie <saber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ahhh, this bit of info, and the info just looked at from our Websense logs > make some sense, got one particular computer that has had a very high number > of google searches today. > > The searches we were doing to test were pretty basic like Windows Updates, > Windows 7, that kind of thing...... > > Thanks guys, this should answer the question that my manager will be asking, > so he's going to have the answers before he asks ;) > > And once again, this list has made me look like an absolutely brilliant > admin!!! You guys rock!! > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> > wrote: >> >> Google flagged your IP with their mysterious system for identifying bots >> that search to drive up page rankings. There is nothing you can do but wait >> it out, it will clear in 24 hours or so. >> >> >> >> It just happens, no one really know why. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:58 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Google Search Issues? >> >> >> >> Just curious to see if anyone else comes up with this same thing. All of >> us here in my office have gone to www.google.com and typed in different >> search phrases and all received the same type of message from Google: >> "We're sorry....but your query looks similar to automated requests from a >> computer virus or spyware ......" Then a captcha below the verbage to >> enter, which when done, gives the results of the search. Then any subsquent >> searches sometimes work, and sometimes go back to the same message.... >> >> -- >> Sherry Abercrombie >> >> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." >> Arthur C. Clarke >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
