Google getting Greedy with Search
January 16, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
As of this morning, I have been hit 5 times with Google not allowing me to search because it thinks I’m spamming it. These are simple searches performed from Firefox that result in this page and a prompt for Captcha info before it does the search. I’m sure I don’t have to remind Google how annoying this is as a Firefox user and power googler.
Weird. I’ve never seen that, and I’m a Google “power user” as well. How many searches had you just performed before you got that?
I wonder if not using Google’s search history affects you in any way. I have my search history tied to my Gmail account — maybe they figure if they’re recording your searches, you’re probably an okay user no matter how many queries you submit in a given length of time.
I’ve googled for 10-15 queries a minute sometimes, and never gotten that. Perhaps that is why?
I wasn’t using Google for any unusual amount of searches. Once every few minutes from the built in Firefox search. It hasn’t happened yet today and it only happened here at work where I am behind proxies. That’s the only thing I can think of, but Google has got to do a better job of discerning legitimate searches for proxy users…
Intriguing.
Anyway it was just a thought, and you would indeed think they’d have a better system in place for proxied users…