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Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

Your Name* — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:10:23 -0000

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...

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

Pete — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:38:25 -0000

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) ...

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

TDave — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:07:02 -0000

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.

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

soccer ronaldinho — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:02:38 -0000

pretty much unheard of.

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

Chad W Smith — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:33:04 -0000

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!

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

ajbatac — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:51:45 -0000

There's always Yahoo! ;)

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

Michael VanDeMar — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:18:49 -0000

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.

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

Chris — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:11:32 -0000

It is fine for me. They will fix this error. When I searched Mashable. It gave the following:

"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"

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

Michael McGimpsey — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:44:36 -0000

I have never heard of Google being broken before.

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

outwindow — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:34:45 -0000

ha!
i have never seen this.
What causes this to happen?

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

micropat — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:23:45 -0000

Clear your browser's cookies.

Re: Breaking: Google is Broken

Ryan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:53:46 -0000

It's not Google.. it's your infected Mac.