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Suspended from Google for Over-Googling
Ed Kohler

Apparently, I've been using Google too much.

How much?

So much that Google thinks I'm sending "automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application." I know I use Google a lot, but this much?

Over Googling

Google offers two links in their suspension message to sources for antivirus or antispyware applications. Here are the operating systems I get to choose from:

Antivirus Software Operating System Options

I'm on a MacBook Pro. Hmmm. Google?




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1. Posted by: Brendan on October 18, 2007 7:52 PM:

I think you'll find it's a Firefox related bug.

The same error can (and does, on occasion) occur under Windows.




2. Posted by: Bashar on October 26, 2007 2:09 AM:

Sometimes it happens because many requests are coming from the same subnet so they block the whole subnet. I would assume that's what happened.

But not listing Apple and having DOS as an option... Umm, does someone really use DOS only now?




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