Hi, Went to google just now, did site:url , as usual and then this happened, is this a once off or a new feature to stop people abusing? Dan
Google has obviously had major problems today. Keyword tracker gave some of us trouble earlier in day. Now your message. Shannon
I've seen that many times when I use a keyword tracker and with too many API requests. Google then asks for the letters to authenticate you are a real person and not some tool.
it has nothing to do with site:* specifically. or at least under normal conditions it certainly wouldn't have anything to do with that. assuming google's functioning normally, you're either making a LOT of requests (think web position gold) or you've got a bit of a security problem. ;-)
I hardly think it's a sercurity problem at our end. I've checked my sercurity using the "Shield up Test" (FireFox Friendly) and Symantec Security Test (Not FireFox Friendly). Both passed. So it's not from my side.
It's not the first time I see that, except for the captcha. Last time it was said in the forum was for specific searches. Also you know site: has changed to show more relevant results, don't you?
When Google receives mass (automated) queries from an IP (range), it usually blocks the IP and shows such a page temporarily until the automated querying is stopped. Just my 2.2 cents!
Yup, you're on the money.. tho it does depend on the request itself too. For example, if your request is arriving via a proxy (or at least the header says so), I believe things are handled a little differently. I understand the captcha also assures a session duration (regardless of header), tho I don't know what that is. Cheers, JL
HEHE i garantee you my pc is not infected by any sort of virus or trojan, im a very smart person when it comes to this, and i know why that error came about, i left some software running on one of my pcs, cheers for input, but it never came up before so i had to question. Dan