Google Hates Me

May 12, 2007 at 11:32 AM
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I'm in the middle of the radio show so I'll make this brief. I can't search on Google. In Firefox, Safari, and directly from the Google site I get the same error message:

Google 403 Screen Cap

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Even when I supply the captcha it refuses to perform the search.

Has anyone seen this before? This is bizarre! It's only happening on my Mac. The PC on the same network works fine. Must be something I'm running on the Mac. (Stickam? Wakoopa?)

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This was happening to me a month ago, it has now stopped. I experienced the exact same problems you are... but for some reason it just went back to normal. I even tried changing networks (wifi, wired, etc...) but nothing would work... but then some magical day it stopped doing that.

That is bizarre. I've never seen anything like that.

Nope, never seen this. Try making your request look less "automated"... yeah, that's it.

Hmm.. Everything works here.. I check both of my computers using the search "wake on lan"

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Are you on your network or are you using a VPN connection to Clear Channel?

-A

Check your cookies?

That is weird, good luck getting that fixed.

I used to get that all the time with blogger.. but then again, I am bot.

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I'm with an earlier commenter about Blogger doing this to me before. Never seen such a thing with searches. Maybe someone at your location is spamming the Goog with search requests?

Aren't you the lucky one? Good thing you have so many friends 'cause you get so many more answers! ;-)

Happy searching....when it's fixed.

Leo, I'm sure you are hiding something ! When I see who many netcast you do, you are a robot :)
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Thankfully I have not yet experienced this message (knock on wood) but then, knowing me, I'm sure that it will come soon enough. I also tried your search for "wake on lan" and it seems fine for me.

Strange, but then technology can be so flaky sometimes. But then it sounds similar to what Bad Behavior (a wordpress anti-spam bot plugin does) in that it will block people from certain ip addresses from accessing the site. I hope Google doesn't start doing that, because we know that for most of us, our ip addresses will change from time to time.

Okay, now you've got me worried.

Get that from time to time at home with my satellite internet connection. Especially with the captcha failing repeatedly in succession so I blame it on the latency - eventually clears itself up.

Have hap some success with Apple's Broadband Tuner but would have to guess that your studio has a far superior internet connection then that available to us mere mortals.

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I'm pretty sure that's some sort of DDOS migitation system they have. Someone on the network in the station may have a virus and be on a bot network that's hitting Google or spamming them.

I have seen that before, though the image verification is new... used to it just wouldn't let you do anything.

-Chris (Nashville, TN)

Well, I can rule out Wakoopa with 100% certainty, it does nothing even remotely related to Google or its services, it only communicates with the Wakoopa servers. I've had this too before by the way a few months ago, I filled the captcha in once and the message disappeared.

This is very strange, I thought Google was perfect... I was wrong...

I received the same error for a few hours yesterday. It then went away. I thought I had been hijacked. Any official word on this from Google???

I think they must have tweaked some of the rules a little too much, about an hour after my original comment I started getting this as well, not on any search but just when I started to go down to the later pages.

Strange...

This happened to me a while ago. It lasts about a day then goes away. Then again I was doing some Google hacking then. Turns out they don't like it when you make hundreds of wget image requests per second to Google Maps.

Take two Yahoo's and call Google in the morning.

I have seen this many times on my father's computer. It usually is a false positive, though.

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I use a Mac and Windows and only get this error on the Mac.

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Well, as we all just learned, Google may hate you but someone loves you because your a** got saved when your ball popped!

This means that your ISP's DNS servers have been hacked. This has happened to me a few weeks ago, and I have been informed by someone I know in a local ISP that they had their DNS servers hacked (and they only found out when someone complained about it). They say that the Google logo is a little bit different than the original.

I hope this helps you.

Wow. Leo, I know this is a bit late but I'm posting my comment anyway. I have never seen anything like that before... it's quite an odd message in my opinion. Update us with the status of it eh? Tell us if you've figured it out?

I received a similar message yesterday afternoon. I tried again and it went away.

power to the Mac

I haven't had this problem yet but I have had issues loading up Quicktime movies in Firefox and Safari of late thou.

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Nearly two months since an entry? Has Leo abondoned his blog??

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All these replies and no one's got the answer yet?

That error often pops up if you're using an anonymous proxy server. I presume google gets dozens of requests from the same IP and then assumes a bot is trying to hammer google.

no dns were hacked.. this is just happening if behind your NAT-ted IP addresses have been automated attempts to query Google. As a amtetr of fact, what the text is saying.

So when you work with a couple a people behind one address and one of them is attempting to automated scripts at google.com (or has a malware program that DOS-es google) you have to proove you are human by the captcha.

i don't think so, Google loves every body, the fact is that , you or somebody else requested queries non stoply, so Google mignt think that you are a spammer so it will ask you about to clarify google, that are you a human?

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