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Hmmm :Oh crap

Screen shot

Virus Alert 401!

Run and hide!

It's not a virus. Google implemented capcha to block viruses, or in your case, automated queries.

Read more about it here (there's 8 pages of info):

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/28417.htm

That's a new one, I hope you can't get viruses from reading GFY posts...

copy paste im not a member....

Can you post a sreen shot of this Google epimic? I have never seen google not preform. and would cherish such a screen shot

You don't have to be a member.

I'm not, and it allows me access.

not allowing me access.. Either we require login from users from your ISP because of abuse, or the thread is marked members only. Please login and then back up to view.


Damn not my day at all... this shit started after i used the seo elite program to check some of my rankings!

From Googleguy (a member of the google community) this pretty much sum's it up:

Hi ogletree! That page originally started because when someone has a virus or a trojaned machine, they often don't realize that their machine may be sending queries to Google without them asking. :)
Recently, we've started to improve the software, and it can also detect lots of things like rank checking and other automatic queries to Google. Of course, we don't show the message to everybody that comes onto our radar, but our new software looks pretty good at detecting programmatic queries. If you're using WebPosition or other software that sends queries to Google from a program, I'm not surprised if you're going over a threshold where your queries are on the radar.

If you do see this message, I would recommend not sending so many queries to Google--the volume or type of queries are unusual enough that it's attracting greater scrutiny from us. If you avoid sending queries to Google from a program, you'll be as right as rain.

Best wishes,
GoogleGuy

The page ranking software that you are using tripped the query threshold that they allow.

It started at the beginning of March (around the 5th).

Part of my operation requires that I run 250,000+ queries a day, and this new bullshit has stonewalled me. Fucking google is messing around with my god damn business.

crap! i only had it search google for my ranks... guess it will allow me to search again in 10 to life LOL:(

+1

:Oh crap

At the same time, your 250k queries is messing with Google's business.
WG

Your board tracker must have gone off.

Excuse me for thinking that they are in the business of enabling users to locate information on the web.

I did only check for a few different keywords and yet I got hammered with this BS...

ohh well!

I want a screenshot :(

Most users aren't performing 250k queries either :)
WG

Yeah, he forgot to mention they use OCR image now to.

Their CAPCHA words are funny, machine readable, almost real and gazillions of them :)

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ;)

Yea, sometimes I forget that google is a company, and not a public good/utility.

:upsidedow