Google Search Rubbish

[tartempion]

Getting this message too often:

Were's sorry

... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google.

To continue searching, please type the characters you see below:

This time search criteria were "AIS edge coverage Thailand"

This is geeting silly, I will stop searching Google and concentrate on Yahoo searches instead.

Good job from Google 101 how to get rid of your customer base....

[opalhort]

I had the same problem on Sunday when I called up the cached version of a pages, live pages version was OK and by now everything is back to normal.

Could be Google had problems with their servers but yes they should be more specific with their error messages.

opalhort

[A_Traveller]

This happens on occasion, in part owing to configuration issues with the translucent proxy. It does seem to be more common if, using Firefox, one uses the separate search engine form in the toolbar, rather than the search page directly.

Regards

edit PS It was suggested to me one other issue is that the proxy is not properly identifying itself, so from Google's perspective it could be receiving multiple requests from an unidentified 'single' source.

Edited December 25, 2007 by A_Traveller

[astral]

I just tried iyour search pattern and had no problems.

Using Firefox.