Suspended from Google for Over-Googling
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?
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:
I'm on a MacBook Pro. Hmmm. Google?
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?
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.