Guys, Google goes through spurts with this. It is an error message that is generally triggered when too many queries appear from a single IP, or IP range, in a short period of time. It is supposed to help combat people running automated software, such as ranking software or link exchange harvesters, that might put a strain on Google.
Every once in a while the threshold for triggering it gets too low (maybe when a ton of activity is detected across the board), and a bunch of these errors will show up even if you aren't running any software like this. Once that happens I will notice them most when doing things like [site:www.domain.com] queries, or looking at the 10th page of a query that is set to 100 results per page. It normally resolves itself within a day or so.
That bit about the spyware, I'm guessing that's there in case someone triggers the error via ranking software that they purchased, in order to scare people into uninstalling it.
Pete
· 8 months ago
This is an old link but as it happened to me recently, I decide to post my experience. I use Google Anonymizer (GoogleAnon) in order to reset the Google cookie ID to zeros. Google, who insists on spying on your life, insists that its cookie expires many years later and it now finds the zeros and realizes how it is missing information on WHO sent the latest entry, it "pretends" it worries it "looks like a virus". Never surf Google without an anonymizer of sorts. If you can't, there's always the smaller engines (Yahoo! probably has similar identity theft issues to worry about) ...
AJ
· 1 year ago
There's always Yahoo! ;)
Chad W Smith
· 1 year ago
NO! NO THERE IS NOT! There is no Yahoo! There is no Yahoo!
*curls up in a ball shivering in the corner*
The Yahoo is a lie! The Yahoo is a lie!
soccer ronaldinho
· 1 year ago
pretty much unheard of.
TDave
· 1 year ago
I had this happen awhile back too. It hasn't happened again. It's weird because I was just searching for some information on a pc from walmart. I wrote a post about the <Google Search Error on my blog.
Your Name*
· 8 months ago
ha! finally fixed this.. ive tried removing cookies, restarting many times pc, scanning for spybots and all.. didnt worked. My firefox home page is set to www.google.com and everytime it gives this error when is start it. But in IE, same site, it works. Anyways, after restarting my router it firefox started working...
All Comments
i have never seen this.
What causes this to happen?
"Twitter / mashable
Twitter down in one hour - grab the feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com... or visit www.mashable.com to stay on top of updates"
Every once in a while the threshold for triggering it gets too low (maybe when a ton of activity is detected across the board), and a bunch of these errors will show up even if you aren't running any software like this. Once that happens I will notice them most when doing things like [site:www.domain.com] queries, or looking at the 10th page of a query that is set to 100 results per page. It normally resolves itself within a day or so.
That bit about the spyware, I'm guessing that's there in case someone triggers the error via ranking software that they purchased, in order to scare people into uninstalling it.
*curls up in a ball shivering in the corner*
The Yahoo is a lie!
The Yahoo is a lie!