Comments on: Facing DDoS Attacks, Google Tells Regular Users “We’re Sorry…” But You’re a Spammer

By: Remi van Beekum (Traffic4u)

Remi van Beekum (Traffic4u) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:19:40 +0000

Yeah those messages telling my query looks a lot like a spam query suck. We’re a search marketing firm with over 100 people working on 1 IP, searching a lot, and using a lot of Firefox plugins. And we trigger that filter every few months.
We can’t reach google then for a few hours and get restored then. Really anoying…
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By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:39:44 +0000

I also get this about once a week and I am not doing anything wrong. I think I just search to fast and to many times manually?
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By: Yogesh Sarkar

Yogesh Sarkar — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:12:21 +0000

This is not new, I have seen such messages this a year or two ago as well.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:25:21 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I remember seeing this a lot when working with 200 employees all on the same IP, all conducting Google searches throughout the day.

By: Jestep

Jestep — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:15:36 +0000

I get this every once in a while. I think I’ve seen it mostly, if I hit refresh too many times, or access google on several computers with the same user logged in. It goes back to normal after while, but is definitely am inconvenience.

You may be able to get rid of it by clearing cookies, logging out of google and logging back in.
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By: Nancy Nally

Nancy Nally — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:15:07 +0000

I’m not a marketer. I’m a blogger. The error message that I kept getting from Google was slightly different from the one you picture. It said that “your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users we can’t process your request right now.”

It’s been several days now since I’ve gotten that message thank goodness. Things seem more back to normal. It was a real pain not being able to access Blogger sites while trying to read feeds and do research.
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By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:12:21 +0000

Yeah, I get this from time-to-time if I’ve been running a bunch of queries with operators in, in quick succession.

I think they admitted recently to doing this to avoid DDoSs. I remember when Michael Jackson died, and they interpreted the spike in searches for his name as an attack, and loads of people saw the message.
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